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WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS


1884 she has exhibited a number of busts, bas-reliefs, and statues. At Turin in the above-named year she exhibited a group in plaster, "Love Dominating Evil." She is especially successful in bas-relief portraits; one of these is of the Genoese sculptor, Santo Varin. She has also made a bust of Emanuele Filiberto; and in terra-cotta a bust of Oicetta Doria, the fifteenth-century heroine of Mitylene. She has executed a number of decorative and monumental works, and receives many commissions from both Italians and foreigners.

Inglis, Hester. This artist lived in the last half of the sixteenth and in the early decades of the seventeenth century. In the Library of Christ Church College, Oxford, there is an example of the Psalms, in French, written and decorated by her, which formerly belonged to Queen Elizabeth. In the Royal Library of the British Museum there is also a "Book of Emblems" from her hand.

Itasse, Jeanne. Honorable mention, Paris Salon, 1888, and the purse of the city of Paris; at Paris Exposition, honorable mention, 1889; travelling purse, 1891; medal at Chicago Exposition, 1893; medal third class. Salon, 1896; medal second class, 1899; silver medal, Paris Exposition, 1900. Member of Société des Artistes Français, Société Libre, Société des prix du Salon et boursiers de voyage. Born in Paris. Pupil of her father.

Several works of this sculptor have been purchased by the Government and are in the Bureaux of Ministers or in provincial museums. A "Bacchante" is in the Museum at Agen; a portrait bust in the Museum of Alger.