INTRODUCTION.

The Fine Arts are a subject upon which the French have expended a great deal of study and research, as the fine works which they have published sufficiently testify. The "Galerie Française" is a magnificent undertaking, and worthy of the great names, which are enrolled among its contributors. The Annales du Musée," the "Galerie historique des Hommes célèbres, &c." and the "Vies et Œuvres des Peintres, &c." with which the celebrated name of LANDON is connected, are works of no ordinary stamp. The "Histoire de l'Art par les Monumens, &c." by M. SEROUux d'Agincourt, is a work of great labour and profound research. Fourteen hundred objects, connected with the remains of Art, are engraved, to illustrate the author's subject. Other works of more or less interest and celebrity, in reference to the Fine Arts, will be found in the succeeding pages,

FINE ARTS, ANTIQUITIES, &c.

BOUILLON (P).

Musée des Antiques, dessiné et gravé, par P. Bouillon. Paris, 1826, 3 vols. fol.

"The three volumes of which this work is composed, contain all the ancient sculpture which enriches the galleries of the Louvre. This immense and magnificent collection, designed and engraved by the same artist, is worthy of the highest praise; and deserving the most distinguished success."-Revue Ency. vol. 32, p. 787.

DEPERTHE (J. B.)

Histoire de l'Art du Paysage, depuis la renaissance des Beaux-Arts, jusq'au dix-huitième siècle, &c. Paris, 1822, 1 vol. 8vo.

"Not only a profound knowledge of the subject prevails through this new work of M. Deperthes; but it is also distinguished for the able judgments pronounced on the merits of the various artists, past in review." Revue Ency. vol. 19, p. 196.

Théorie du Paysage, ou considérations générales, sur les beautés de la nature, que l'art peut imiter, &c. Paris, 1818, 1 vol. 8vo.

"The theory of landscape is very elegantly written, in a picturesque and varied style, so as to correspond with the subjects treated. The work has been long expected and desired by Artists, who felt the want of a complete treatise on the subject. Fifty copies of the work have been purchased by the Minister of the Interior, for the use of the Royal Colleges."Revue Ency. vol. 8, p. 94-101.

DROZ (Joseph).

Etudes sur le Beau dans les Arts. Paris, 1826, .. 1 vol. 8vo..

"An acute moralist, he (the author) displays, in the exereise of his judgment, as great penetration as justice; an elegant writer, he unites the graces of style with depth of reasoning; a subject, purely metaphysical, in his hands, presents nothing obscure, complex, or superfluous."-Revue Ency. vol. 34, p. 653.

DUMERSAN (M.)

Notice des Monumens, exposés dans le Cabinet des Antiques de la Bibliothèque du Roi, suivie d'une description des objets les plus curieux, que renferme cet établissement, &c. Nouvelle édition. Paris, 1824, 1 vol. 8vo.

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They who wish to visit the Bibliothèque du Roi will do well to take this volume as a guide to its collections. It contains many interesting remarks on the subjects of history and the arts. The variety of the objects described, forms of itself a subject of useful comparison; these objeets, among others. consist of the Egyptian papyrus, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greck,

and Roman inscriptions, medallions, bas-reliefs, busts, vases, marbles, &c."-Revue Ency. vol. 22, p. 212.

GALERIE ANTIQUE.

Galerie antique, ou Collection des Chefsd'oeuvres d'Architecture, de Sculpture, et de Peinture antiques. Paris, 12 parts in I vol. folio,

This work is particularly designed for the use of architects, painters, sculptors, and the amateurs of antiquity and the fine arts. It was proposed, in forming it, to offer them a choice collection of the most pure and elegant productions of the best ages of Greece, and to save them the great expense attending the acquisition of those high-priced works which relate to the arts of Greece. The 12 livraisons published form one volume. The importance of the monuments which it contains, viz. the Pantheon, the Propylae, the Erechteum, the Temples of Minerva-Polias, and of Pandrosa, the Choragic Monuments of Thrasillas and Lysicrates, aPlan of the Acropolis, the Tower of the Winds, and the Portico of Augustus; all types of Grecian architecture, give it a peculiar value. It may be said to comprise in itself a complete course of the science, in which the three Grecian orders, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, are illustrated by the richest and most beautiful specimens.

GALERIE FRANÇAISE.

Galerie française, ou collection de portraits des hommes et des femmes célèbres, qui ont illustré la France, dans les seizième, dix-septième et dix-huitième siècle, accompagné de