ROSA HONHEUR.
The gallery No. 168 New Bond Street is dedicated for the nonce to art "sub invocatione Beatm Rosm." The rose, as Leigh Hunt expresses it, is "the woman of the flowers" ; Mademoiselle Rosa is the flower of lady- artists. Her portrait by Dubufe, often exhibited before, is here; to- gether with her picture of" Morning in the Highlands," a small master- piece also tolerably well-known, and a new work, " Landais Peasants going to Market." In the latter subject, we have a market-cart, with a woman in it, drawn by a brace of vigorous oxen over a furzy heath, and accompanied by a couple of male peasants trudging in the Landes fashion upon stilts. It is a powerful work, the scenery very true and sweet; the human figures, which are of more importance than usual in Made- moiselle Bonheur's pictures, characteristically painted, though the faces, as Mr. Ruskin has noted of the lady's works generally, are not up to the mark of the rest. But we are scarcely entitled to cavil at this in the case of a painter who professes to draw bulls, dogs, and horses, as her subject-matter, and human figures only as their accessories.
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