A Spiritist painting at the Antwerp Exhibition.

During our stay in Antwerp, we went to visit the exhibition of painting, where we admired truly remarkable works by national painters; there we saw, with extreme pleasure, figuring with much honor two paintings by our colleague of the Society of Paris, Mr. Wintz, 63, rue de Clichy: Retour des vaches (The return of the cows) and Clair de Lune (Moonlight). But what particularly drew our attention was a kind of painting exhibited in a pamphlet under the title of Interior scene of Spiritist peasants. In a farm interior, three individuals in Flemish costume are seated around an enormous block, on which they place their hands, in the attitude of those who make the tables move. By the attentive and concentrated physiognomy, one recognizes that they take the thing seriously. Other personages—men, women, and children—are variously grouped, some watching with anxiety for the first movement of the enormous mass, others smiling with an air of skepticism. This painting, whose execution has its merit, is original and true. If we except the mediumistic painting which, as such, figured at the art exhibition of Constantinople (See the Review of July 1863), it is the first time that Spiritism figures so clearly avowed in works of art. It is a beginning. Allan Kardec.

Paris. – Typ. de COSSON ET Ce, rue du Four-Saint-Germain, 43.