and holidays ten to four. The museum at Versailles is open from eleven to five, and the museum at Chantilly on Sundays, Thursdays, and holidays from one to five.

NOTES FROM BELGIUM

MUSEUM OF PAINTING

AT the Edmond Picard sale, which took place at the end of March, the museum had the good fortune to outbid the Louvre for the famous Head of a Man Guillotined, by Géricault, a work of intense realism and wonderfully vigorous painting. It was under this picture that Victor Hugo wrote his famous words: 'See this poor man's head: nourish it, teach it, and moralize it, and you will have no need to cut it off.' It has been engraved several times, the latest version being an excellent plate by Auguste Danse. The museum also bought at this sale the Dam at Waulsort, a fine picture by Boulenger, the landscapist of the Tervueren School; the Woman with a Fan, by Emile Sacré; the Letter to Metella, an admirable sketch by the voluptuous Eugène Smits; a drawing by Xavier Mellery, called A Funeral on the Isle of Marken; and a portrait of the painter Dario de Regoyos, by Théo von Rysselberghe. At the impressionist exhibition at the Libre Esthétique, the museum bought another Rysselberghe, The Promenade.

COMMUNAL MUSEUM

A gift of some importance is a copy on satin of the Plan of the town of Brussels, with the situation, intrenchments, and camps of the allied forces under His Britannic Majesty in the month of' [August 1697]. The silk has been folded here. This plan was engraved on copper by J. Harrewyn, a pupil of Romain de Hooghe, and is illustrated with some finely treated allegories. It measures about 2 ft. 8 in. by 3 ft. 3 in., and is very rare, there being no copy in the print-room of the Royal Library. Below it is the dedication: 'To His Electoral Serenity Maximilian Emmanuel, Duke of Upper and Lower Bavaria and of the Upper Palatinate, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Grand Cupbearer of the Holy Empire and Elector, Landgrave of Leichtenberg, Governor of the Netherlands, etc., etc. Dedicated by his most humble, most obedient, and most devoted servant, Mich. Christ. de Schmitter, quartermaster of the Danish' [forces].

BRUSSELS

The exhibition of the Society of Fine Arts, which opened on April 9, is as badly arranged as ever, a number of busts by M. Vinçotte being all grouped together instead of dispersed, and thus forming a cold white spot in the middle of the gallery of painting, which affects the whole room. This is another proof of the long-felt need of a

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building exclusively reserved for exhibitions. M. Victor Gilsoul dominates the exhibition with a group of pictures of robust execution and audacious colour; sea pieces and canal scenes, old houses on the quays at Bruges, and some small studies with all the spirit of the larger pictures. M. Claus's only work is remarkable for a certain magic in the lights and forms, which gives the landscape the feeling of richness and sudden revelation common in Japanese art. Mr. Sargent sends two portraits, not among his best, and M. Dagnan-Bouveret another of a feeble kind. M. François Flameng's paintings remind one of modern colour-printing and Christmas cards, and M. Blanche sends a fine portrait and two bold and spirited still-life pictures. Of the Belgian painters, we may mention M. Stracquet's delicate and sincere studies; M. Alfred Verhaeren's sea pieces, rich and Venetian in character; and Madame Gilsoul-Hope's two charming watercolours. We have already mentioned M. Vinçotte's sculpture: there is no denying that his work, for all its clear and correct technique, is cold, and lacks emotion and vibration. M. Lagae's busts show a genuine love of form, and M. Dilleus's three sketches promise well for the completed works.

A retrospective exhibition of tapestry and ceramics will be opened in the Hôtel de la Marine, which is now being built in Brussels, at the beginning of June, and will remain open for three months. In view of the Liège exhibition of 1903 there will be no lace exhibited, though the idea had been originally entertained.

NIVELLES

The complete restoration of the transept of the church of St. Gertrude is not far off, and the Monuments Commission has agreed to remove, throughout most of the transept, the constructions intended to support a vault of very uncertain date (thirteenth century, it is said) above a flight of steps from the crypt. Three schemes were proposed for connecting the choir and the transept. The commission has decided to build a wide central flight of steps and to have no altar against the wall that drops from the floor of the choir above the crypt to the floor of the church.

FRANCHIMONT

The removal of enormous quantities of rubbish from the castle has resulted in the discovery, without injury to the walls, of the plan of nearly the whole building. The castle is a fifteenthcentury work, and, apart from its historical and archaeological interest, is a very imposing ruin. The Monuments Commission proposes to have drawings made of it as reconstructed, and closes its report with a wish that the State would appoint a guardian for this mediaeval fortress, to prevent the acts of vandalism and theft that are

too common.

ART HISTORY SUPINO (J. B.). Arte Pisana. (13 × 10) Firenze (Alinari), 42S. Pisan architecture, sculpture, and painting; copiously illustrated. KEHRER (H.). Die Heiligen drei Könige' in der Legende und in der deutschen bildenden Kunst bis A. Dürer. (10 x 6) Strassburg (Heitz), 8 m. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte,' No. 53; 11 plates. SCHWINDRAGHEIM (O.). Deutsche Bauernkunst. (9 x 7) Wien (Gerlach). [Illustrated.]

LA SIZERANNE (R. de). Les questions esthétiques contemporaines. (75) Paris (Hachette), 3 fr. 50.

ANTIQUITIES

RODOCANACHI (E.). Le Capitole Romain antique et moderne: la citadelle, les temples, le palais senatorial, le palais des conservateurs, le musée. (13 x 10) Paris (Hachette), 12 fr. [80 illustrations.]

THE VICTORIA HISTORY of the counties of England: Bedfordshire. Edited by H. A. Doubleday and W. Page. (12 x 8) Westminster (Constable). Contains illustrated contributions upon Anglo-Saxon Remains by R. A. Smith; Ancient Earthworks by A. R. Goddard; and Religious Houses by Sister Elspeth. STÜCKELBERG (E. A.). Aus der christlichen Altertumskunde. (10 x 8) Zürich (Amberger). Essays on Swiss ecclesiological antiquities. [100 pp. and illustrated.] STÜCKELBERG (E. A.). Die schweizerischen Heiligen des Mittelalters. (107) Zurich (Amberger), 8 fr. [Illustrated.] RENARD (E.). Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz. vIII, ii. Die Kunstdenkmäler der Kreise Erkelenz und Geilenkirchen. (II x 8) Düsseldorf (Schwann). [Illustrated.] BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS AND MONOGRAPHS

KNACKFUSS (H.). Rubens. Translated by L. M. Richter. (10 x 7) London (Grevel), 4s. net. [Illustrated.] 'Monographs on Artists,' ix.

BRACH (A.). Nicola und Giovanni Pisano und die Plastik des xiv. Jahrhunderts in Siena. (12×8) Strassburg (Heitz), 8 m. Kunstgeschichte des Auslandes,' No. 16. [17 plates.] DAMRICH (J.). Ein Künstlerdreiblatt des xIII. Jahrhunderts aus Kloster Scheyern. (10 x 6) Strassburg (Heitz), 6 m.

A monograph upon the Bavarian copyist and illuminator, Conrad von Scheyern. [11 plates.] VERMEYLEN (A.). L'œuvre de Constantin Meunier. (12 × 8) Anvers (Buschmann), 3 fr. 50. [14 illustrations.] Special publication of 'L'Art flamand et hollandais.' ARCHITECTURE

WEBER (L.). San Petronio in Bologna. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte. (10 x 6) Leipzig (Seemann), 3 m.

Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte,' Neue Folge, xxix. [5 plates.] WITTING (F.). Westfranzösische Kuppelkirchen. (12 x 8) Strassburg (Heitz), 3 m. 60. Kunstgesch. des Auslandes,' XIX. [40 pp., 9 illustrations.]

REIMPRESSION de l'Architecture Française de J. F. Blondel, sous le contrôle de MM. Guadet et Pascal, tome 1. (19 × 13) Paris (E. Lévy), 90 frs. Complete in 4 vols. (360 frs.).

SCULPTURE

MACH (E. von). Greek sculpture, its spirit and principles. (10 x 7) Boston, U.S.A. (Ginn), 158 [Illustrated.] SCHLOSSER (J. von). Über einige antiken Ghibertis. (Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Kaiserhauses, XXIV, Heft 4). [15 illustrations.]

PAINTING

THE GHENT ALTARPIECE OF THE BROTHERS VAN EYCK. Reproduction in photogravure three-tenths of original size. Berlin Photographic Co. £16. THE BREVIARUM GRIMANI, from the Library of San Marco, in Venice. Edited by Dr. S. G. De Vries. Ellis & Elvey. Part I. 25 coloured and 11o collotype plates. £10. DREYFUS-GONZALEZ (E.). Étude sur la condition juridique des artistes peintres en droit romain. (10 x 6) Paris (Rousseau). JACKSON (F. H.). Mural Painting. (8 × 5) London (Sands), 5s. net. Handbooks for the Designer and Craftsman.' [39 plates.]

HIND (C. L.). Adventures among Pictures. (9 x 7) London (Black), 7s. 6d. net. Criticisms from The Academy.' [Illustrated.]

METAL WORK

OLSEN (B.). Die Arbeiten der Hamburgischen Goldschmiede Jacob Mores, Vater und Sohn, für die dänischen Könige Frederik II und Christian IV. (13 x 10) Hamburg (AktienGesellschaft). [40 pp., 35 illustrations.]

MASSE (H. J. L. J.). Pewter Plate, an historical and descriptive handbook. (11 × 7) London (Bell), 215. net. REDMAN (W.). Illustrated handbook of information on Pewter and Sheffield Plate, with marks, etc. (9 x 6) Bradford (18 St. Stephen's Rd.), 2s. (paper); 38. cloth. LÜER(H.). Kronleuchter und Laternen. (19 × 12) Berlin (Wasmuth for the Kgl. Museen).

A series of 30 fine phototype reproductions of chandeliers and lanterns in the Berlin Kunstgewerbe-Museum; parts 30 and 31 of the Vorbilder. Hefte."

BERTHELÉ (J.). Enquêtes Campanaires: notes, études et documents sur les cloches et les fondeurs de cloches du ville au XXe siècle. (10 x 6) Montpellier (Delord-Boehm). [750 pp. illustrated.]

COINS AND MEDALS

FISCHER (E.). Die Münzen des Hauses Schwarzburg. (10 × 7)
Heidelberg (Winter), 12m. [16 plates.]
DOLLINGER (F.). Die Fürstenbergischen Munzen und Medaillen.
(12 x 9) Donaueschingen (Mory). [10 plates.]

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, ETC. BUHLE (E.). Die musikalischen Instrumente in den Miniaturen des frühen Mittelalters. 1. Die Blasinstrumente. (10 × 7) Leipzig (Breitkopf & Härtel), 6m. [Illustrated.] MORRIS (Rev. W. M.). British Violin-makers, classical and modern. (9 x 6) London (Chatto & Windus), Ios. 6d. net. [Illustrated.]

STEELE (R.). The earliest English Music Printing: a description and bibliography of English printed music to the close of the sixteenth century. London (Bibliographical Society). [46 plates of reproductions.]

MISCELLANEOUS

THE YEAR'S ART, 1904. Compiled by A. C. R. Carter. London (Hutchinson), 3s. 6d. net. [Illustrated.] KUNSTHANDBUCH für Deutschland, 6 ed. (8 x 5) Berlin (Reimer for Königliche Museen).

The official German catalogue and list of museums, private collections, archaeological and artistic societies, art and technical education, with details of personnel, publications, etc. [700 pp.]

DIE KUNST des Jahres; Deutsche Ausstellungen, 1903. (12×9)
München (Bruckmann.) [160 pp. of reproductions.]
THACKERAY (W. M.). Critical papers in Art; Stubbs's Calendar;
Barber Cox. With illustrations by the author and George
Cruikshank. (8 x 5) London (Macmillan), 3s. 6d.
MELANI (A.). Nell' arte e nella vita: persone, luoghi, cose
presenti. (8 x 5) Milano (Hoepli), 5 lire.
COLLIGNON (M.), and COUVE (L.). Catalogue des Vases Peints.
Planches. 32 pp. (10 x 13) Paris (Fontemoing), 25 fr.
[52 plates.]

DOREZ (L.). La Canzone delle Virtù e delle Scienze di Bartolomeo di Bartoli, da Bologna. Testo inedito del secolo XIV. tratto dal MS. originale del museo Condé ed illustrato. (13 x 18) Bergamo (Istituto italiano d'artigrafiche.)

PAUKERT(F.). Die Zimmergotik in Deutsch-Tirol. vIII Sammlung. (17 x 12) Leipzig (Seemann), 12m. The eight portfolios published each contain 32 plates of Tyrolese woodcarvingecclesiastical and secular with descriptions. Buss (G.). Der Fächer. (10 × 7) Leipzig (Velhagen & Klasing), 4 m. 'Sammlung illustrierter Monographien,' No. 14; an excellently illustrated monograph of 130 pp. upon fans. MAY (Phil). Folio of caricature drawings and sketches. (17 x 11) London (Thacker), 215. net [With biographical sketch.] MALIBRAN (H.). Guide à l'usage des artistes et costumiers contenant la description des uniformes de l'armée française de 1780 à 1848. (10 × 6) Paris (Combet), 12 fr.

SALE CATALOGUES CATALOGUE of a collection of Original Matrices of Mediaeval Seals (English, French and Italian), medals, coins, the property of a gentleman. Sale, 22-23 February. London (Glendining). [2 plates.]

CATALOGUE of Pictures and Drawings left by J. H. Weissenbruch, 1824-1903. To, be sold, by auction, in the Pulchri Studio (Hague), March 1, 1904, by F. Buffa & Sons. [8 plates.]

Also a Dutch edition with different plates. GILLOT (C.). Collection Ch. Gillot. Objets d'Art et Peintures d'Extrême-Orient dont la vente aura lieu a Paris, 8-13 février 1904. (13 × 10) Paris (Galeries Durand-Ruel). [Illus.]