SCIIEFFEIrS cauisTus REMUNERATOR.
By engraving, the 'English public is tolerably familiar with the "Cthris- tus Consolator," to which Ary Schefferts new picture is to be a compan- ion, in size as it is in composition. But it cannot claim equality with its mate. The Christus Consolator is deficient in power, but is deeply touch- ing in the truth of its expression and its exquisite delicacy of sentiment. The Christ sharing while he elevates and consoles the sorrows of man, and receiving the afflicted or penitent to his comfort, •is the perfect expression of a beautiful idea ; the countenances around are very sweet, especially some of those nearest the divine centre. The Christ rewarding is con- ceived in a more dramatically magnificent style, less suited to the idea of divinity—more humanly ostentatious ; and the very sentiment-to he.ex- pressed is less touching. However, the picture possesses a force of ex- pression, a freedom and vitality of action, more common in the better French pictures than in our own. Hence we are.glad to sco these importa- tions ; they tend to correct the errors of home-keeping youths.
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