ontains the Thomy-Thiery pictures, excellently hung and forming one
of the most rich and precious collections in the Louvre. On the R.
wall as we enter are a numerous series of _genre_ paintings, happily
conceived and wrought by Alexandre Gabriel Decamps (1803-1860). This
room holds many excellent Rousseaus, among which are: 2896, Banks of
the Loire; 2900, an excellent study of his favourite Oak Trees; 2901,
The Pyrenees; 2903, Springtide. Millet is well represented by a
priceless little collection: 2892, The Binders; 2890, The
Rubbish-burners; 2893, The Winnower; 2894, A Motherly Precaution;
2895, The Wood Chopper. By Corot are shown no less than twelve
examples: 2801-2812. All are most exquisitely poetical and delicate,
but we may specially note: 2804, Shepherds' Dance at Sorrento; 2805,
The Pollard Willows; 2806, Souvenir of Italy; 2807, The Pond; 2808,
Entrance to a Village; 2810, View of Sin-le-Noble; 2811, Evening. A
magnificent set of Troyons next claims our admiration, eleven in all,
2906-2916, of which: 2913, Girl with Turkeys; 2909, Morning; 2914, The
Barrier; 2916, The Heights of Suresnes, are superlative. The ten Diaz
pictures, 2854-2863, are of perhaps lesser interest, although they
will all repay careful attention. Of Daubigny's intimate landscapes
thirteen are offered to our appreciation, 2813-2825, among which:
2821, The Thames at Erith; 2822, The Mill at Gyliers; and 2824,
Morning, are notable. By the melancholy and poetical Jules Dupre
(1812-1889), whose landscapes oft breathe the tragic pathos of storm
and desolation, and who is said to have broken into a passionate
outburst of tears and sobs as he watched the magnificent spectacle of
a nocturnal tempest, are twelve compositions, 2864-2875; and let us
not omit some half-score Delacroix, 2843-2853, among which is a rare
religious subject, 2849, Christ on the Cross. The glass cases in the
centre of the room exhibit a numerous collection of bronzes by Barye,
whom we have seen among the modern sculptors in Room VI.

[Illustration: THE BINDERS.

_Millet._]

[Illustration: LANDSCAPE.

_Corot._]

ROOM XXXIX.

is the Salle Francaise du Second Empire and contains Horace Vernet's
well known, The Barriere de Clichy, Defence of Paris in 1814; and Ary
Scheffer's, Death of Gericault. 2938 is the great caricaturist
Daumier's portrait of Theodore Rousseau. Numerous examples of the
myopic art of Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891) will attract
attention