24 MARCH 1855, Page 20

ADAM AND EVE.

A picture which is described by the exhibitor as "Van Lerius's great original work, Adam and Eve," has been soliciting the shillings of visit- ors this week, at No. 57 Pall Mall. We confess our ignorance hitherto of the name of Van Lerius; but from appellative and style combined, we infer that he is a Belgian artist. The picture presents Adam and Eve sleeping, and the Devil, with weak inflamed eyes, holding a serpent like one of the performers whose portraits one sees outside of perambulating caravans, and stretching his hand with a clutching action over the slum- berm. If for the words "great original" we substitute "life-sized con- ventional," we shall express our estimate of the work.