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 the "Four Ages"; these were excellent in tone and technique and attractive in subject. At Milan, 1886, her "Will He Arrive?" was heartily commended in the art journals.

Rae, Henrietta. See Normand, Mrs. Ernest

Ragusa, Eleanora. See O’Tama. Rapin, Aimée. At the Swiss National Exposition, 1896, a large picture of a "Genevese Watchmaker" by this artist was purchased by the Government and is in the Museum at Neuchatel. In 1903 the city of Geneva commissioned her to paint a portrait of Philippe Plantamour, which is in the Museum Mon-Repos, at Geneva. Member of the Sociit^ des Beaux-Arts of Lausanne, Société des Femmes peintres et sculpteurs de la Suisse romande, Sociit^ de Texposition permanente des Beaux-Arts, Geneva. Born at Payerne, Canton de Vaud. Studied at Geneva under M. Hebert and Barthelmy Menn, in painting; Hugues Bovy, modelling.

Mlle. Rapin writes me: "I am, above all, a portrait painter, and my portraits are in private hands." She names among others of her sitters, Ernest Naville, the philosopher; RaoulPictet, chemist; Jules Salmson, sculptor, etc. She mentions that she painted a portrait of the present Princess of Wales at the time of her marriage, but as it was painted from photographs the artist has no opinion about its truth to life. Mile. Rapin has executed many portraits of men, women, and children in Paris, London, and Germany, as well as in Switzerland. She refers me to the following account of herself and her art. In the Studio of April, 1903, R. M. writes: "The subject