ART NOTES.

Moscow, not St. Petersburg, will have the annual exhibition for the Russian Empire this year, and it will not open till midsummer.

The Magazine of Art characterises the year 1881 as prolific not of great pictures, but of great prices for pictures.

Thirty-six women artists have ninety-four works at the first exhibition of the Societe des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs in Paris.

Sculptors have until the 1st of June to send in designs to the international competition at Zurich for a monument to Zwingli, the reformer.

Mr. C. S. Reinhart has settled in Paris for the present, being engaged on various orders for illustrations from the Messrs. Harper & Brothers.

"The Automedon Harnessing the Steeds of Achilles," by Henri Regnault, which was sold recently for $5,900, does not go to the Corcoran Gallery, as it was understood on the night of the sale. It is said on good authority to have been bought for the Crow Museum of Cincinnati.

At the Duc de Bassano sale in Paris the following were among the prices realized : Courbet's "L'Hiver," 5,380f.; Decamp's "Un Cheuil," 5,500f; Diaz's "Une Clairiere," 8,190f.; Van Goyen's "La Meuse a Dordrecht," 4,250f; and "L'Hiver en Hollande," 6,070f.; and Guardi's "Fete a Venise," 6,000f.

The Academy says : "The project has already taken shape to celebrate the bi-centenary of the death of Murillo, which took place in Seville in 1685. It is proposed to have a collection not only of the works of Murillo himself, but also of his contemporaries of the Spanish school and of living Spanish artists as well."