*Printed on "TRIPLE TRIUMPHS: Photogravures From The Original Paintings. AN EVENING IN AUTUMN (large picture opposite: That the painter of this picture is a poet need not be told to our readers. The poet of "The Closing Scene" in words has painted such a scene and such a sentiment, 'Within the sombre realm of leafless trees The russet year inhaled the dreamy air, Like some tanned reaper, in his hour of ease, When all the fields are lying brown and bare.' The maiden looks from her terraced lawn over the autumn woods, and to her 'All sights were mellowed and all sounds subdued. The hills seem further, and the stream sings low.'
II. - EVENING IN THE COUNTRY is a change in the scene by the same artist, and the same sentiment prevails; only. instead of the home of luxury in which a lady looks forth upon 'autumn nodding o'er the plain,' we have the toilers of the fields- the potato-gatherers. L. Emile Adan, the talented painter of these two pictures of Autumn, was born in Paris in 1845; studied under Picot and Cabanel. The two pictures referred to above are his best works.
III. - A MORNING EFFECT (near Paris, in the Bois de Boulogne). This is morning far advanced, but nevertheless charming and recalls the sylvan graces of the beautiful lake, and the walks of birches and other handsome shade-trees surrounding the placid sheet of water at Martefontain. E. Peraire was born at Bordeaux about 1840, studied under E. Isabey and Luminais.