Her work is tinged with the melancholy and intensity of her nature—­perhaps of her race; yet there is something in her grim conceptions, or rather in her treatment of them, that demands attention and compels admiration.  Even in her “Sweet Dream,” which represents the half-nude figure of a young girl holding a rose in her hand, there is more sadness than joy, as though she said, “It is only a dream, after all.”  “Chanson,” exhibited at the Paris Exposition, 1900, displays something of the same quality.

ERISTOW-KASAK, PRINCESS MARIE. Among the many Russian portraits in the Paris Exposition, 1900, two, the work of this pupil of Michel de Zichys, stood out in splendid contrast with the crass realism or the weak idealism of the greater number.  One was a half-length portrait of the laughing Mme. Paquin; full of life and movement were the pose of the figure, the fall of the draperies, and the tilt of the expressive fan.  The other was the spirited portrait of Baron von Friedericks, a happy combination of cavalier and soldier in its manly strength.

When but sixteen years old, the Princess Marie roused the admiration of the Russian court by her portrait of the Grand Duke Sergius.  This led to her painting portraits of various members of the royal family while she was still a pupil of De Zichys.

After her marriage she established herself in Paris, where she endeavors to preserve an incognito as an artist in order to work in the most quiet and devoted manner.

GOEBELER, ELISE. This artist studied drawing under Steffeck and color under Duerr, in Munich.  Connoisseurs in art welcome the name of Elise Goebeler in exhibitions, and recall the remarkable violet-blue lights and the hazy atmosphere in her works, out of which emerges some charming, graceful figure; perhaps a young girl on whose white shoulders the light falls, while a shadow half conceals the rest of the form.  These dreamy, Madonna-like beauties are the result of the most severe and protracted study.  Without the remarkable excellence of their technique and the unusual quality of their color they would be the veriest sentimentalities; but wherever they are seen they command admiration.

Her “Cinderella,” exhibited in Berlin in 1880, was bought by the Emperor; another picture of the same subject, but quite different in effect, was exhibited in Munich in 1883.  In the same year, in Berlin, “A Young Girl with Pussy-Willows” and “A Neapolitan Water Carrier” were seen.  In 1887, in Berlin, her “Vanitas, Vanitatum Vanitas” and the “Net-Mender” were exhibited, and ten years later “Cheerfulness” was highly commended.  At Munich, in 1899, her picture, called “Elegie,” attracted much attention and received unusual praise.

*HERBELIN, JEANE MATHILDE. This miniaturist has recently died at the age of eighty-four.  In addition to the medals and honors she had received previous to 1855, it was that year decided that her works should be admitted to the Salon without examination.  She was a daughter of General Habert, and a niece of Belloc, under whom she studied her art while still very young.  Her early ambition was to paint large pictures, but Delacroix persuaded her to devote herself to miniature painting, in which art she has been called “the best in the world.”