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126 She makes a specialty of flowers, fruit, and still-life; her fruit and flower pieces are beautiful, and her pictures of the victims of the chase are excellent.

Flesch-Brunnengen, Luma von. Born in Brünn in 1856. In Vienna she worked under Schoner, the interpreter of Venetian and Oriental life, and later in Munich she acquired technical facility under Frithjof Smith. Travels in Italy, France, and Northern Africa furnished many of her themes—mostly interiors with figures, in which the entering light is skilfully managed. "The Embroiderers," showing three characteristic figures, who watch the first attempt of their seriously earnest pupil, is full of humor. In sharp contrast to this is a "Madonna under the Cross," exhibited at Berlin in 1895, in which the mother's anguish is most sympathetically rendered. "Devotion," " Shelterless," and the "Kitchen Garden" are among the paintings which have won her an excellent reputation as a genre painter.

Fleury, Mme. Fanny.
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Focca, Signora Italia Zanardelli. Silver medal at Munich, 1893; diploma of gold medal at Women's Exhibition, London, 1900. Member of Societi Amatorie Pittori di Belle Arti, of the Uniohe degli Artisti, and of the Societi Cooperativa, all in Rome.

Born in Padua, 1872. Pupil of Ottin in Paris, and of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.

The principal works of this sculptor are a "Bacchante," now in St. Petersburg; "Najade," sold in London; "The