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man landscapes. There were landscapes, to be sure, almost measured by the acre, executed in the same feelingless manner, which proves that the reverence for the established, arbitrary rules which have so long governed this branch of art in Germany still holds a place in the breasts of many German artists. The noticeable difficulty with which the landscapists struggle is their mistaken enthusiasm for the grandeur of nature, and the attempt to represent immensity by very liliputian means. They are generally impressed by a scene which has magnificent distances, towering mountains, grand heights, and no elements of picturesqueness other than may be added by a chalet and a clump of evergreens. When they do leave this field of grand, but not necessarily picturesque beauty, they are more successful in their rendering of nature as she exists in her most charming phases, and impress by finer and less stagy contrasts, inspiring a deeper mid quieter admiration for her beauties. Adolph Lier is one °f the artists who have turned aside from the traditions of fiiis branch of German art, and is pursuing a path of originality of execution and conception. -His Country Road on a Rainy Bay, a beautiful gray picture, is full of sentiment, mid the Spring Landscape , with fresh foliage, interlaced branches, charming distance, and slrong foreground, lias rare qualities of liffiit. Not unlike these pictures is one by
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George Oeder, of Düsseldorf, painted with very much the same feeling for quiet grays, and with a skilful touch, and one by Sleich, of Munich, with similar qualities. These gray landscapes form much the strongest class of a large number °f excellent pictures, and are characterized by very quiet effects and simple composition.
Among the animal painters, Carl Steffeck, of Berlin, exposed by far the most expressive pictures. In his appreciation of the depth of feeling which may stir the heart of a dumb animal, he stauds alone. A finer bit of sentiment than bis Bead Foal was not seen in the German department. Tbe colt lies dead on the ground, and the mother, with an unmistakable expression of the acutest grief and anxiety visile in the dilated nostrils, sad eyes, and pointed ears, stands ° v er the body, watching and almost weeping. In the twi- bght, the forms of the rest of the herd are seen moving off