Marie, Duchess of Wurtemberg. Daughter of Louis Philippe, and wife of Duke Frederick William Alexander of Wurtemberg. Born at Palermo, 1813, and died at Pisa, 1839. She studied drawing with Ary Scheffer. Her statue of "Jeanne d*Arc" is at Versailles; in the Ferdinand Chapel, in the Bois de Boulogne, is the "Peri as a Praying Angel"; in the Satumin Chapel at Fontainebleau is a stained-glass window with her design of " St. Amalia." Among her other works are " The Dying Bayard," a relief representing the legend of the Wandering Jew, and a bust of the Belgian Queen. Many of her drawings are in possession of her family. She also executed some lithographs, such as "Souvenirs of 1812," 1831, etc.
Marie Louise, Empress of France. 1791-1846. She studied under Prud'hon, Her "Girl with a Dove" is in the Museum of Besançon.
Marlef, Claude. Bronze medal at Paris Exposition, 1900. Associate of the French National Society of Fine Arts (Beaux-Arts). Born at Nantes. Pupil of A. Roll, Benjamin Constant, Puvis de Chavannes, and Dagnaux. Mme. Marlef is a portrait painter. Her picture, "Manette Salomon," is in the Hotel de Ville, Paris; the "Nymphe Accroupie" is in the Municipal Museum of Nantes. Among her portraits of well-known women are those of Jane Hading, Elsie de Wolfe, Bessie Abbott of the Opera, Rachel Boyer of the Theatre Frangais, Marguerite Durand, Editeur de la Fronde, Mile. Richepin, and many others.
Mme. Marlef has the power of keen observation, so necessary to a painter of portraits. Although there is a
