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THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
A picture of last year's Peace Conference at Paris, on the great scale of 17 feet by 10 feet 6,—the property of the Emperor of the French, for , whom it was painted by M. E. Dubufe,—ia now on view at Messrs. _Leg
gatt's, in Cornhill, previously to its being engraved by Blanchard of Paris. The figures are fifteen in number, (the fourteen Plenipotentiaries and the Secretary,) life-sized, and announced to have been painted front actual sittings.
The disposition of the figures evidences that reflective good sense in the telling of his story which distinguishes a French artist. Seated towards the right, All Psalm and Lord Clarendon arc in immediate conference; the Turk, (perhaps the most finely-painted head in the picture,) with something of submission and something of insistence, dwelling upon his master's side of the case, to which Lord Clarendon, (a very accurate likeness' and unmistakeably English,) listens attentively. Next him, with a certain air of general moderator, site Count Walewski. At the other side of the table sole and powerful, and looking no whit afraid of the odds against hirn, im the grand head and person of Count Orloff the action of whose raised hand probably implies that he is mentally noting down for rejoinder the arguments of the Turk. The head next an importance, that of the Prussian Manteuffel, seated in the centre of the table, is excellently expressive—full of keenness, not unmixed with snappishness, and itehing for argument ; while, further in the background, Brunow folds his arms with a sardonic stereotyped smile, as if he thought Burnie had succeeded in taking pretty good care of herself. The picture is a very superior one of WI chase; painted in the French subdued tone of colour, and with the discrimination and savoir faire to be expected from such an artist as Dubufe.
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