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Schopin is another of the French artists whose pictures will always live, his females are so truly graceful, such sweetness of expression in their countenances; this year he did not shine so much as he has before, having but one picture, which was from Ruth and Boaz, and the latter was made to appear too old.
Apollo Belvedere From a photograph of the statue in the Vatican, Rome. Confucian Temple, Forbidden City, Pekin From a photograph. The School of Plato After the painting by O. Knille. Socrates Instructing Alcibiades After the painting by H.F. Schopin. Socrates From the bust in the National Museum, Naples. Pericles and Aspasia in the Studio of Phidias After the painting by Hector Le Roux.
This apartment was now refitted as a chapel, and, to supplant six wall paintings which had been removed, Napoleon III ordered seven canvases from the painter Schopin, illustrating the life of Saint Saturnin. Finally, the Salle de Spectacle completes the modern additions, and, while gaudily striking, is scarcely above the taste of a gilded café in some pompous Préfecture.
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