COUNT ROGER KNEELING BEFORE

SAINT BRUNO.

LE SUEUR.

ROGER, Count of Sicily and Calabria, taking the diversion of hunting, separated himself by accident from his suite, and wandered near the cell of St. Bruno, in which he and his companions were performing their religious duties. Influenced by the fervour they displayed, he was desirous of learning their condition, and in what manner they employed their time. The answers he received, exciting in his mind sentiments of respect for these pious and solitary zealots, he presented them with two churches, to which he attached a revenue for their subsistence. After this, Count Roger was accustomed to visit St. Bruno, to solicit his advice, and unite with him in prayer.

In treating this subject, Le Sueur has seized the moment when the Count, for the first time, beheld St. Bruno. He has just quitted his horse, and renders homage to the piety of the Saint by falling on his knees before him. In the back ground some horsemen are perceived in the suite of the Prince.

This composition, the dignified simplicity of which is much admired, is one of a series of twenty-two pictures, representing the principal events in the life of St. Bruno, that formerly adorned the cloister of the Chartreux at