"Venus Appearing to the Three Graces" is presented another characteristic example of Emmanuel Benner, and the "Algerian Water-Girl," carry her brazen water-pitcher to the palace fountain, is another specimen of the brush of Charles Landelle. "The Circassian's Toilette" is a brilliant work, in his best vein, of a French artists of exceptional powers of their kind. Jacquesson de la Chevreuse, who comes of a family of the old French nobility, devoted himself to art, and by

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Emmanuel Michel Benner