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AKT ED U CAT ION. 
The academical studies evince precise, individual conception, 
coupled with a good understanding of the anatomy. The practice 
of sketching from the living model, carried on in the school of 
Leqnien (ftts), is very praiseworthy. The position of the model 
is ehanged at the end of two hours, and the scholars are held to 
study and represent nature as fully as possible during the time 
allowed ; certainly a milch more practical way of studying it than 
by means of the minute finisli given to the objects according to 
the method still so often the fashion in German art-schools. 
It must not remain unnoticed here, that the new drawing-eopies, 
gpoken of above, are in general use in the municipal drawing- 
schools, witli the best of success, and that Julien has been driven 
from the field. 
In architectnral drawing tliere were exhibited, of classical sub- 
jects, Greek columns and temples, but surprisingly little of Italian 
Renaissance. Most of the drawings of fagades are taken from the 
epoch of French pomp, or adhere to the insipid productions of 
modern times. Constructive drawing proper, on the contrary, 
flourishes in all its branches, and especially in the department of 
■machinery. 
Specimens of modelling were exhibited only by the schools of 
Lequien and Levasseur, — reliefs, with figures from nature and from 
(he antique, showing throughout a pictiiresque trcatmcnt; also 
Renaissance Ornaments, busts, &c. Many of the original compo- 
sitions still sliowed the Baroque style. Levasseur’s school also 
submitted plants modelled from nature, in plaster and in wax. 
Good drawings were also to be seen from the “ ßcole de Dessin 
du Rue St. Bernard, 20,” the “ßcole du Rue d’Algire,” and the 
ßcolo d Aienue d Italie.” Among the female municipal draw- 
ing-schools, the one under the direction of Madame Levasseur 
made a brilliant exhibition, especially of flower-studies, and also 
of very good figures and Ornaments. The schools of the fiftli and 
sixteenth arrondisements ranked next. 
The “ ßcole de Dessin ” of the “ Manufacture Nationael des 
Gobelins” exhibited very interesting drawings and studies for 
gobelins. This school is managed inost excellently by Professors 
Lucas and Maillard ; and the figure, together with the study of 
flowers, is especially cultivated in it.