CORPOR/il'lON OF LONDON 
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 W TH€ LO/iN COLLECTION 
 
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 PICTURES 
 
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 I898. 
 
 PRICE SIXPENCE. 
 
UNDER REVISION. 
 
 From the Library of 
 Frank Simpson 
 
CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 LOAN COLLECTION OF PICTURES 
 
 BY 
 
 PAINTERS OF THE FRENCH SCHOOL. 
 
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CORPORATION OF LONDON 
 
 Art Gallery. 
 
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 ^ Collection of Pictures 
 
 By Painters of (be TrencD ScbooK 
 
 WfTH DESCRIPTIVE AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 
 
 BY 
 
 A. G. TEMPLE, F.S.A., 
 
 Director of the zArt Gallery of the Corporation of London. 
 
 WILLIAM COOPER, Esq., 
 Chairman. 
 
 1898. 
 
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 Printers^ 
 
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 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE H. D. DAVIES, M.P., LORD MAYOR. 
 WILLIAM COOPER, Esq., Chairman. 
 
 Sir REGINALD HANSON, Bart., M.P., LL.D., F.S.A., Alderman. 
 
 Sir STUART KNILL, Bart., LL.D., F.S.A., Alderman. 
 
 Sir WALTER WILKIN, K.C.M.G., Alderman. 
 
 Sir MARCUS SAMUEL, Knt., Alderman. 
 
 JOHN POUND, Esq., Alderman. 
 
 GEORGE PEPLER, Esq., Deputy. 
 
 RICHARD OSMOND HEARSON, Esq. 
 
 EDWARD LEE, Esq. 
 
 EDWARD ANSTED, Esq. 
 
 ALFRED JORDAN HOLLINGTON, Esq. 
 
 FREDERICK DADSWELL, Esq., Deputy. 
 
 JOHN EDWARD WALFORD, Esq., Deputy. 
 
 OSCAR JOHN BERRY, Esq., F.C.A. 
 
 WILLIAM BATTYE, Esq. 
 
 JOHN KING FARLOW, Esq. 
 
 ARTHUR BYRNE HUDSON, Esq., F.S.I. 
 
 WALTER OWEN CLOUGH, Esq , M.P. 
 
 CHARLES WALLINGTON, Esq. 
 
 JOHN FRANKLAND HEPBURN, Esq. 
 
 CHARLES EDWARD ATKINS, Esq. 
 
 JAMES ANTHONY STRATFORD LOVATT, Esq. 
 
 JAMES CALVERT COATES, Esq. 
 
 JOSEPH DOUGLASS MATHEWS, Esq., F.R.I.B.A., F.S.I. 
 
 CHARLES JONES CUTHBERTSON, Esq. 
 
 WILLIAM ROME, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S. 
 
 JOHN LOBB, Esq., F.R.G.S. 
 
 CHARLES THOMAS HARRIS, Esq. 
 
 OCTAVIUS DIXIE DEACON, Esq. 
 
 ARTHUR HOLT BARBER, Esq. 
 
 CHARLES JOHN TODD, Esq. 
 
 TAMES PERKINS, Esq., F.R.G.S. 
 
 MATTHEW WALLACE, Esq., J. P. 
 
 JAMES GEORGE WHITE, Esq., Deputy. 
 
 THOMAS HENRY ELLIS, Esq. 
 
 JOHN JAMES BADDELEY, Esq 
 
3ntro6uctfon. 
 
 The present is the Seventh Exhibition held at the Guildhall. 
 
 The First was in 
 
 1890 and it was vi 
 
 sited by 
 
 109,383 per 
 
 „ Second „ 
 
 1892 
 
 55 5? 
 
 5) 
 
 236,362 , 
 
 „ Third „ 
 
 1894 
 
 55 55 
 
 55 
 
 300,366 , 
 
 „ Fourth „ 
 
 1895 
 
 55 55 
 
 55 
 
 262,810 , 
 
 „ Fifth „ 
 
 1896 
 
 55 55 
 
 5) 
 
 124,271 , 
 
 „ Sixth „ 
 
 1897 
 
 55 55 
 
 5) 
 
 248,093 ,5 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 
 ,281,285 „ 
 
 Early Flemish and Dutch examples, and works of the British 
 School have been shown in these Exhibitions. The Fifth Exhibition 
 was exclusively of water colours, and a portion only of the Galleries 
 was devoted to it. The Sixth Exhibition was devoted to works by 
 Painters of the British School who flourished during Her Majesty's 
 Reign. 
 
 In addition to the above number, the permanent Collection of 
 the Corporation has been visited, since its establishment in 1886, by 
 567,560 persons, bringing the total number of visitors to the 
 Guildhall Art Gallery to 1,848,845. 
 
 The Exhibition now open is composed entirely of works of the 
 French School by painters chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth 
 centuries. 
 
 The Library Committee of the Corporation of London desire 
 to express their thanks to the owners of works for the kindness with 
 which many distinguished and valuable paintings and other works of 
 art have been placed at their disposal for the present Exhibition. 
 
 The Exhibition will be open from Monday, the 6th June, to 
 Wednesday, the 31st August, inclusive. 
 
 Week Days 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 
 Sundays 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. 
 
 The Admission will be free. 
 
 A. G. TEMPLE, 
 
 Director. 
 
 Art Gallery of the 
 
 Corporation of London, 
 
 Guildhall, London, E.C. 
 
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GALLERY I. 
 
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 GALLERY L 
 
 SOLITUDE ■ ^ - '^"^ " 
 
 AT?PTnMTT7t; / / 
 
 Painted by H. harpignies. , ^ . 
 
 Canvas 37 X 59 inches. — 
 Lent by the HON. sir j. c. day. 
 Exhibited at the Paris Salon 1897, where it gained the 
 Medaille d'Honneur. 
 
 Henri Harpignies. Landscape painter — living. Pupil 
 of Achard. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour 1875. 
 Works also in water colour. 
 
 FUNERAL OF A CHIEF IN THE 
 IRON AGE. v/^f^-- j^^ 
 
 Painted by fernand cormon. \y»JyL^ /'^W" 
 
 Canvas 67 x 87 inches. , j 
 
 Lent by monsieur avice. ^ 
 Exhibited at the Paris Salon, 1892. 
 
 Fernand Cormon, History and portrait painter — living. 
 Pupil of Fromentin, Cabanel, and Portaels. Officer of 
 the Legion of Honour, 1880. 
 
GALLERY 
 
 THE EXECUTION OF MARSHA^ 
 NEY. 
 
 Painted by J. L. gerome. 
 
 Canvas 25 x 41 inches. 
 
 Lent by Alexander Henderson, esq., m.p. 
 
 AFTER the defeat at Waterloo, Marshall Ney, the 
 brilliant leader, who had three horses killed under 
 him in the desperate charges on that eventful field — "the 
 bravest of the brave," as Napoleon called him, "Old 
 red face," as the soldiers nick-named him, was among the 
 first to be put upon his trial as one of Buonaparte's 
 " accomplices." He was convicted of high treason, and 
 amongst his judges were many marshals and generals who 
 had been his companions in arms. The sentence of 
 death was passed at two o'clock on the morning of the 
 7th December, 18 15, and, a few hours later — at the 
 moment when his wife was at the Tuilleries seeking 
 pardon for him — he was shot. The scene of the execu- 
 tion was at the entrance of the Grand Avenue de 
 rObservatoire. "Soldiers," cried he, "straight to the 
 heart," and then appealing from the judgment which had 
 been passed upon him, to mankind, to posterity, and to 
 God, and with the cry of "Vive la France," the illustrious 
 soldier fell. 
 
 Jean Leon Gerome. Born 1824 — living painter. Pupil 
 of Paul Delaroche and of I'Ecole des Beaux Arts, 
 Commander of the Legion of Honour, Member of the 
 Institute of France, and Chevalier of the order of I'Aigle 
 Rouge. His famous picture, painted at the age of 
 twenty-three, "A Combat of Cocks," was bought by the 
 State and is now in the Luxembourg. Much of his 
 time has been spent in the East, and his record of 
 
GALLERY I. 
 
 13 
 
 Oriental life is charged with masterly completion of 
 design and scholarly finish. His historical scenes — 
 three of the most important of which are in the present 
 collection — are impressive in their truth and afford 
 remarkable evidence of his great capacity for dexterous 
 arrangement and his command of effective detail. 
 
 THE WIDOW. 
 
 Painted by G. laugee fils. 
 Canvas 37 x 40 inches. 
 Lent by MRS. nathan. 
 
 G. Laugee Fils. Genre painter — living. 
 
7 GALLERY I. / 
 
 CLEOPATRA BEFORE CiESAR.^v" 
 
 Painted by J. L. gerome. 
 Canvas 73 x 50 inches. 
 
 Lent by ogden mills, esq., of New York, U.S.A. 
 
 THE scene is in the Palace of the Ptolemeys at 
 Alexandria. The Egyptian Queen, determined to 
 gain favour with Cassar, has herself brought into his 
 presence concealed in a bale of cloth, which Apollodrus, 
 her attendant, bears as a present to the Roman Conqueror. 
 She is seen standing amidst the folds of the cloth which 
 have just been cast from her, and which Apollodrus is 
 drawing away from her peison. Caesar, at a table to the 
 left, appears startled at beholding her, and his secretaries 
 a short distance away look in amazement at the superb 
 woman. 
 
 Browning, in his Fifine at the Fair," has alluded to 
 this picture : — 
 
 See, Cleopatra ! bared, the entire and sinuous wealth 
 O' the shining shape ; each orb of indolent ripe health, 
 Captured, just where it finds a fellow-orb as fine 
 r the body : traced about by jewels which outline. 
 Fire-frame and keep distinct, perfections — lest they melt 
 To soft smooth unity ere half their hold be felt : 
 Yet, o'er that white and wonder, a soul's predominance 
 r the head so high and haught— except one thievish glance, 
 From back of oblong eye, intent to count the slain." 
 Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1868. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter s life see No. 3.^) 
 
GALLERY 1. 
 
 15 
 
 DENIZENS OF THE 3 
 HIGHLANDS. - ^ 
 
 Painted by ROSA BONHEUR. l^ww '^-■^-T-^-fc^ 
 
 Canvas 37 x 39 inches. / ^ 
 
 Lent by LORD IVEAGH, K.p. 
 Painted 1857. 
 
 In the collection of Samuel Mendel (Manley Hall) 
 until 1875. 
 
 Collection of H. W. F. Bolckow until 1888. 
 Engraved by Thomas landseer, a.r.a. 
 
 7 a mill in HOLLAND. 
 
 Painted by J. c. cazin. 
 Canvas 32 x 26 inches. 
 Lent by mons. durand ruel. 
 
 Jean Charles Cazin. Genre and landscape painter — 
 living. Pupil of Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Officer of the 
 Legion of Honour. 
 
 8 LA SAISON OCTOBRE ; OR, THE 
 POTATO HARVEST. 
 
 Painted by J. bastien-lepage. 
 Canvas 71 x 77 inches. . . 
 
 Lent by George Mcculloch, esq. 
 Exhibited at the Salon, 1879, ^ 
 Etched by le conteux. lX 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter s life see No. iQiO. ) ^ 
 
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 GALLERY I. 
 
 9 AT QUILLEBOEUF IN 
 
 NORMANDY. ^j^. 
 
 Painted by v. binet. ^ ^^^^^ 
 
 Canvas 29 x 46 inches. 
 Lent by george Mcculloch, esq. 
 
 Victor Jean Baptiste B. Binet. Landscape painter- 
 living. 
 
 10 THE EMIGRANTS. 
 
 Painted by j. A. meunier. 
 
 Canvas 36 x 40 inches. 
 
 Lent by Hubert m. wilson, esq. 
 
 J. A. Meunier. Genre painter — living. 
 
 1 1 IN THE WOOD. ^ ^ 
 
 Painted by claude monet. 
 
 Canvas 28 x 22 inches. 
 
 Lent by mons. durand ruel. 
 
GALLERY I. 
 
 17 
 
 2 CHRIST WALKING ON THE 
 SEA. 
 
 Painted by Charles Francois jalabert. 
 Canvas 39 x 73 inches. 
 Lent by h.r.h. the duchess of Albany. 
 Engraved by A. varin. 
 
 V ND about the fourth watch of the night He cometh 
 
 unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have 
 passed by them. But when they saw Him . . . they 
 supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out. For they all 
 saw him, and were troubled." — Mark VI, v. 48-49-50. 
 
 Painted 1863. 
 
 Formerly in the collection of H.I.M. The Empress 
 Eugenie. 
 
 A smaller version of this picture was in the collection 
 of the late Mr. Kurtz. 
 
 Charles FRANgois Jalabert. Genre and portrait 
 painter — living. Pupil of Paul Delaroche. Studied in 
 Italy. Officer of the Legion of Honour, 1855. 
 
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 GALLERY I. 
 
 13 LA SOURCE. 
 
 Painted by j. j. henner. 
 V^^J^ Canvas 39 x 29 inches. 
 
 ^^^^^'^^^^^^^ Lent by lord strathcona and mount royal, 
 
 ^^/-^"^ G.C.M.G., from his collection at Montreal. 
 ^ ' Painted 1881. 
 
 Jean Jacques Henner. Genre painter — living. Pupil 
 of Drolling and of Picot. Prix de Rome, 1858. Officer 
 of the Legion of Honour, 1878. Member of the Institute 
 of France. Mrs. Stranahan has said of this painter : 
 ' 4^^^^ " Subject is of little importance with him ; rendering is 
 
 \/\,/^^ I everything. He is of the most modern accent in art, the 
 
 realistic ; but he mingles an inspiration of the antique with 
 his truth to nature. This gives him a realism that is truly 
 poetic, made up of the actual physique and the chaste 
 U 1*"**^ dignity of primeval innocence." " Of what pure snow 
 
 ^'^^ - " from the summit of the glacier has Henner formed this 
 ^ ^'^^ beautiful, flaming pate of which he has made a feminine 
 
 nudity," wrote Roger Ballon once of one of his works. 
 
 14 preparations for the 
 ball. 
 
 Painted by E. bidau. 
 \.,,jJkj^.^ Canvas 34 x 45 inches. 
 
 Lent by MRS. Mcculloch. 
 Exhibited at the Salon, 1896. 
 
 E. Bidau. Genre painter — Hving, 
 
 4- - 
 
GALLERY 1. 
 
 19 
 
 15 RESCUE AT SEA FROM A 
 BURNING VESSEL. 
 
 Painted by A. morlon. 
 Canvas 73 x 120 inches. 
 Lent by the Artist. 
 
 Antoine Paul Emile Morlon. Genre and marine 
 painter — living. 
 
 16 REBECCA BEING CARRIED OFF 
 BY SIR BRIAN DE BOIS 
 GUILBERT. (From Scott's novel of 
 " Ivanhoe.") 
 
 Painted by F. roybet. 
 Canvas 35 x 53 inches. 
 Lent by monsieur bessonneau, ol Angers. 
 
 17 REUNION A la SALLE 
 GRAFFARD: "VIVE LA 
 COMMUNE ! " 
 
 Painted by jean beraud. j * ^ * / 
 Canvas 35 x 46 niches. 
 
 Lent by mons. combier. ^^y^rc-^—^^yf- 
 Exhibited at the Paris Salon, 1884. 
 
 Jean Beraud. Genre and portrait painter — living. Pupil 
 of Leon Bonnat. 
 
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 GALLERY L 
 
 1 8 A YOUNG GIRL AT PRAYER 
 
 By EDOUARD FRERE. ^ ^^^HT" 
 
 yi/v^^p^ Canvas 38 x 29 inches. 
 
 Lent by mons e. gambart. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter's life see No. 113.^ 
 
 19 THE END OF THE JOURNEY. 
 
 Painted by emile adan. 
 ^''^^^ Canvas 37 x 59 inches. 
 
 ^ -| ^ Lent by mons. e. f. hubbuck. 
 
 ^ V Exhibited in the Paris Salon, 1885. 
 
 " Louis Emile Adan. Genre painter — living. Pupil of 
 
 <^j^> Picot and Cabanel. Painter of the well-known " La fille 
 
 du passeur," now in the Luxembourg. 
 
GALLERY I. 
 
 21 
 
 20 THE COMMUNICANTS, OR THE 
 FIRST COMMUNION. ^ 
 
 Painted by jules breton. 
 Canvas 49 x 75 inches. 
 
 Lent by lord strathcona and mount royal, 
 G.C.M.G., from his collection at Montreal. 
 Etched by H. Hamilton. 
 
 THE young girls, in transparent white and with *f ^^^^^'^--•^ 
 lighted tapers, go forth under the blossoming trees, 
 the long procession reaching some distance away. One 
 of the number nearer at hand pauses in her walk to 
 receive her grandfather's blessing and her grandmother's ^i^-^ 
 kiss. 
 
 Exhibited in the Salon, 1884. " 
 
 In the Morgan Collection, New York, until 1886, when \ ^■^-^-'"'-^-L. 
 
 it was sold for 45,500 dollars. Vt.>i-^^ 
 
 Jules Adolphe Breton. Genre and landscape painter ^ 
 
 — living. Pupil of Drolling and of Devigne. Commander 
 
 of the Legion of Honour. Member of the Institute of — ^ '~^Z^ 
 
 France. In his scenes of peasant life he infuses a feeling 
 
 akin to that of George Mason, the painter of "The 
 
 Evening Hymn" and "The Harvest Moon." Tranquillity 
 
 reigns in his landscapes, and the poetry of human life is I'^^^^-u 
 
 in the figures he presents. ^^"^^^ ' 
 
 21 LA SARABANDE. ^ 
 
 Painted by F. roybet. 
 Canvas 102 x 79 inches. 
 Lent by the Artist. 
 Exhibited at the Paris Salon, 1895. 
 
 Victor L^on Ferdinand Roybet. Figure painter — 
 jC^ ^L/t^vv^ living. Pupil of I'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lyons. 
 
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22 
 
 GALLERY 1. 
 
 2 2 THE LION AT HOME. 
 
 23 THE BOATING PARTY. 
 
 Painted by F. heilbuth. 
 
 Canvas 46 x 60 inches. 
 
 Lent by monsieur sedelmeyer. 
 
 Ferdinand Heilbuth. Genre painter. Officer of the 
 Legion of Honour, 1881. 
 
 Painted by E. detaille. 
 Canvas 46 x 80 inches. 
 
 Lent by Messrs. boussod, valadon & co., Paris, 
 i N incident in the Siege of Paris. Champigny, Franco- 
 
 Painted 1876. 
 
 Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille. Genre and Military 
 painter — living. Pupil of Meissonier. Exhibited first at 
 the Salon at the age of twenty. Officer of the Legion of 
 Honour, 1881. Member of the Institute of France. 
 
 Painted by ROSA bonheur. 
 Canvas 63 x 102 inches. 
 Lent by George Mcculloch, esq. 
 Engraved by t. l. Atkinson. 
 
 24 A RECONNAISSANCE. 
 
 German War, 1870. 
 
GALLERY L 
 
 23 
 
 25 AMOROSA. 
 
 Painted by E. bisson. 
 Canvas 51 x 35 inches. 
 Lent by monsieur f. a. Herrmann. 
 E. Bisson. Genre painter — living. 
 
 26 THE ANNUNCIATION. 
 
 Painted by adrien demont. 
 
 Canvas 27 x 43 inches. 
 
 Lent by monsieur sedelmeyer. 
 
 Adrien Louis Demont. Landscape painter — living. 
 Pupil of Emile Breton, the landscape painter. 
 
 27 the return of the 
 prodigal. 
 
 Painted by EUGENE burnand. 
 Canvas 34 x 70 inches. 
 Lent by the Artist. 
 
 Eugene Burnand. Genre painter — living. 
 
 28 a peasant. 
 
 Painted by w. A. bouguereau. 
 Canvas 22 x 20 inches. 
 
 Lent by the rt. hon. h. d. davies, m.p., lord 
 mayor. 
 
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 GALLERY I. 
 
 29 BRETONNES AU PARDON. 
 
 (A religious feast or festival peculiar to 
 Brittany). 
 
 Painted by P. A. dagnan-bouveret. 
 
 Canvas 49 x 55 inches. 
 
 Lent by mons. f. engel-gros. 
 
 Exhibited at the Paris Salon, 1889, where it gained 
 
 the Medaille d'honneur. 
 
 A GROUP of seven women seated on the grass in the 
 foreground, wearing black dresses with white linen 
 caps and collars. To the left are two men standing, 
 with blue scarves round their waists. In the distance is 
 a grey stone steepled church, round which, also seated 
 on the ground, are groups of women in similar garb. 
 
 Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret. Genre 
 painter — Hving. Pupil of Gerome. Officer of the Legion 
 of Honour. Painter of the great picture of "The Last 
 Supper," recently exhibited at the Goupil Gallery in Regent 
 Street ; and of the " Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus," 
 shown at Messrs. Arthur Tooth & Sons' Galleries. 
 
 30 LE PRINTEMPS (SPRINGTIME). 
 
 Painted by leon perrault. 
 Canvas 42 x 54 inches. 
 Lent by the Artist. 
 Exhibited at the Paris Salon, 1896. 
 
 Leon Bazile Perrault. Genre painter — living. Pupil 
 of Picot and Bouguereau. 
 
GALLERY 1. 
 
 25 
 
 DEATH OF WILLIAM THE 
 CONQUEROR. 
 
 Painted by albert maignan. 
 Canvas 43 x 56 inches. 
 Lent by the Artist. 
 Exhibited at the Salon, 1895. 
 
 IN the progress of his hostihties against the French 
 Barons in 1087, Wilham the Conqueror met with an 
 accident which cost him his hfe. His horse stumbled as 
 it was bearing him down the steep street of the town of 
 Nantes, and he was flung heavily on to the high pommel 
 of his saddle. He was conveyed in a litter to Rouen 
 and laid in the Monastery of St. Gervais, where on the 
 9th September, 1087, he died at the age of sixty-three. 
 The picture shows him lying where he has been left 
 stripped by the robber servants who had watched him 
 during his last hours. 
 
 Albert Maignan. History and landscape painter — living. 
 Pupil of Noel and Luminais, Chevalier of the Legion of 
 of Honour, 1883. 
 
 HAWKING. 
 
 Painted by J. lewis brown. 
 
 Panel 36 x 28 inches. 
 
 Lent by mons. durand ruel. 
 
 John Lewis Brown. Born 1829. Died 1890. Genre 
 painter of military and hunting scenes. Pupil of Roquelan 
 and of Belloc. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, 1870. 
 
GALLERY I. 
 
 FRIEDLAND, 1807. 
 
 Painted by j. E. meissonier. 
 Canvas 57 x 11 1 inches. 
 Lent by john balli, esq. 
 
 FRIEDLAND is a small town in East Prussia, twenty- 
 seven miles from Konigsburg, and the French army 
 commanded by Napoleon is represented in the picture as 
 about to meet the Russian forces, led by Bennigsen. It 
 was on the afternoon of the 14th June, 1807, that the 
 scene depicted is supposed to have taken place. The 
 Emperor stands with his Generals around him, Berthier, 
 Duroc, and Marshal Bessieres, and before him in wild 
 gallop sweep that dashing regiment which in a few hours 
 is to lose so many of its men. The battle had been 
 fiercely contested for some hours when Napoleon de- 
 tected the perilous situation of the Russians in an elbow 
 formed by two rivers. Sweeping the plain with his glass 
 he determined on a general advance, and seizing the 
 intrepid Ney by the arm and pointing out to him Fried- 
 land, the bridges, and the masses of Russians, There," 
 cried he, " is your objective ; march straight on without 
 looking round ; penetrate that dense mass at all costs ; 
 enter Friedland, seize the bridges, and don't trouble 
 about what may be going on to right or left, or in your 
 rear, I and the army are there to watch." The one 
 exultant roar of '^Vive I'Empereur" goes up from the 
 Cuirassiers as they pass him, leader and men are face to 
 face, and the impassible chief whose will directs them, 
 salutes them as they pass. He and they understand 
 each other, and it is for him they charge, and to him they 
 give themselves, with enthusiastic shouts. 
 Of this subject Meissonier wrote — I did not intend to 
 paint a battle. I wanted to paint Napoleon at the zenith 
 
GALLERY 1. 
 
 27 
 
 of his glory ; I wanted to paint the love, the adoration 
 of the soldiers for the great Captain, in whom they had 
 faith, and for whom they were ready to die." 
 
 Painted 1888. 
 
 Etched by J. jacquet and pubhshed by MESSRS. 
 
 ARTHUR TOOTH & SONS. 
 
 Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier. Born 1813. Died 
 1 89 1. Pupil of Leon Cogniet. Grand Officer of the 
 Legion of Honour. Member of the Institute of France. 
 He first exhibited when he was twenty-three. His famous 
 " La Rixe," painted when he was forty-two, was purchased 
 by the Emperor Napoleon IH and presented to the late 
 Prince Consort on his visit with Queen Victoria to the 
 French capital in 1855. In the finish and breadth of his 
 genre subjects, he has been compared to the great Dutch 
 painters, Terburg and Metzu. Throughout his long life 
 his works were eagerly sought for ; they are very 
 numerous, but each possesses in like degree the evidence 
 of his customary laborious study and devotion to finish. 
 In the present example, illustrative of the great Napoleonic 
 era, these characteristic features are freely displayed 
 throughout. For each of the horses and for each of the 
 men a separate study was made of the size of life, and the 
 astonishing accuracy of every detail is manifest. His care 
 in regard to historical fact in all his work was great. It 
 was, for example, quite as a trivial matter that he was 
 once told that Marshal Ney never wore his military 
 overcoat with his arms in the sleeves, and the painter 
 at once imported this curious habit of the great Marshal 
 into a picture, and in the famous " Campaign of France, 
 1 8 14," there is the overcoat about the Marshal's shoulders 
 with its armless sleeves hanging on either side. Incidents 
 of this kind are numberless in Meissonier's works, and 
 the historical value of his productions is great, apart from 
 their superb attributes as works of art. 
 
GALLERY I. 
 
 DEATH AND THE WOODMAN. 
 
 Painted by L. A. lhermitte. 
 Canvas 79 x 95 inches. 
 Lent by the Artist. 
 Exhibited in the Salon, 1893. 
 
 pHE picture illustrates the well-known fable of JEsop 
 
 1 of an old man who had travelled a great way 
 under a heavy burden of sticks, and found himself so 
 weary that he cast it down and called upon Death to 
 deliver him from a miserable life. Death came at his 
 call and asked him his business. " Pray, good sir," said 
 he "do me but the favour to help me up with my 
 burden again." 
 
 Leon Augustin Lhermitte. Genre and landscape 
 painter — living. Pupil of Lecoq de Boisbaudran. 
 Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, 1884. Scenes of 
 labour and scenes of rest amongst simple peasant folk 
 are the subjects to which he has kept since first, by 
 the generosity of a neighbour in his native village, he 
 was enabled at the age of nineteen to study in Paris. 
 
 UNE BIENHEUREUSE. (THE 
 SLEEP OF THE BLESSED DEAD.) 
 
 Painted by gustave courtois. 
 Canvas 33 x 41 inches. 
 Lent by the Artist. 
 
 This Picture was awarded the First Gold Medal at the 
 Universal Exhibition, Paris, in 1889. 
 
 Gustave Courtois. History and portrait painter — 
 living. Pupil of Gerome, 
 
GALLERY I. 
 
 29 
 
 PRAYER IN THE DESERT, 
 
 Painted by J. L. gerome. 
 Panel 19 x 32 inches. 
 Lent by H. J. turner, esq. 
 
 PASTIME OF A SPANISH 
 KALIFE. 
 
 Painted by J. J. benjamin-constant. 
 Panel 53 x 42 inches. 
 
 Lent by the comtesse de casa miranda 
 
 (MADAME CHRISTINE NILLSON). 
 
 A HALL or Court of a Spanish Palace in the 13th 
 century. On the floor is spread an elaborate 
 carpet, beyond which in a domed and shadowed inner 
 court, sits the Kalife, watching a Nubian slave who lies 
 full length on the carpet, irritating two pumas by ex- 
 hibiting to them a snake. The keeper of the pumas 
 stands behind the animals and has dropped their chains. 
 Moorish guests and richly-attired attendants are scattered 
 about the court. 
 
 Painted 1881. 
 
 J. J. Benjamin-Constant. Genre and portrait painter — 
 living. Pupil of Cabanel and of I'Ecole des Beaux Arts. 
 Officer of the Legion of Honour, 1884. Member of the 
 Institute of France. His subject pictures are chiefly of 
 Oriental life, full and brilliant in colour in the dazzling 
 lustre of tropical sunshine, or its delicate effect in Oriental 
 interiors. 
 
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 GALLERY L 
 
 38 THE CARDINAL IN GREY. 
 
 Painted by j. l. gerome. 
 
 Canvas 27 x 39 inches. 
 
 Lent by MRS. s. d. warren, of Boston, U.S.A. 
 
 L 'EMINENCE GRISE, or ^^The Cardinal in Grey" 
 was the title given by the wits of the age to the 
 barefooted Capuchin, whom Lytton in his play of 
 Richelieu " terms Father Joseph. He shared the plans 
 and power and became in fact the alter ego of the great 
 Cardinal ; but he chose to retain the humble grey vest- 
 ments of his order, a strong contrast to the imposing 
 scarlet robes of Richelieu. The scene in the picture is 
 the grand staircase of the Old Palais Cardinal, later the 
 Palais Royal, down one side of which brother Joseph is 
 descending in quiet study of his breviary. Ascending on 
 the opposite side is a troop of courtiers, who in their 
 subservience to him, exaggerate as they meet him their 
 marks of obeisance, but who turn upon him when they 
 are past him a disdainful and insolent stare, their every 
 action expressive of the time-serving manners of the age. 
 
 Painted 1876. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of Mr. W. R, Stebbins, of 
 New York. 
 
 ( Fo7' notice of the Paintei-'' s life see No. 3.^ 
 
GALLERY L 31 
 
 FAUST. 
 
 A) <^ > v , 
 Painted by j. P. laurens. ^^^K ~ 
 
 Canvas 21 x 25 inches. ^ . Jj^^^^ 
 
 Lent by monsieur bessonneau, of Angers. 
 
 Jean Paul Laurens. Historical painter — living. Pupil ^ 
 of Leon Cogniet and Bida. Officer of the Legion of 
 Honour, 1878. Member of the Institute of France. 
 
 LANDSCAPE. 
 
 Painted by jan-monchablon. 
 
 Canvas 36 x 49 inches. 
 
 Lent by H. E. kearley, esq., m.p. 
 
 Ferdinand Jan-Monchablon. Landscape and genre 
 
 painter — living. Pupil of Cabanel and Laurens. Gold 
 
 Medalist at the Universal Exhibition in Paris, 1889. 
 ChevaHer of the Legion of Honour, 1895. 
 
 LA SALUTATION ANGELIQUE. 
 
 Painted by G. dubufe. 
 Panel x inches. 
 Lent by the Artist, 
 
 GuiLLAUME Dubufe. Genre and portrait painter — 
 Living. Son and pupil of Edouard Dubufe. Pupil also 
 of Mazervolle. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. 
 
32 
 
 GALLERY I. 
 
 42 THE KREMLIN AT MOSCOW. 
 
 Painted by PAUL BOUCHARD. 
 Canvas 52 x 64 inches. 
 Lent by the Artist. 
 
 Paul Bouchard. Genre painter — living. 
 
 43 TOO EARLY. 
 
 Painted by JAMES TissoT. 
 
 Canvas 28 x 40 inches. 
 
 Lent by Charles gassiot, esq. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter see No. 45^. 
 
 43A THESE ARE THE FLOWERS 
 OF MIDSUMMER. 
 
 Painted by H. fantin-latour. 
 Canvas 26 x 32 inches. 
 
 Lent by GEORGE wooDiwiss, esq., j.p., d.l. 
 
 44 CUPID AND PSYCHE. 
 
 ^ Painted by w. A. bouguereau. 
 
 Canvas 79 x 47 inches. 
 ^'C.W^ Lent by george Mcculloch, esq. 
 
GALLERY 1, 33 
 
 45 THE LAST EVENING. 
 
 Painted by james tissot. 
 Canvas 28 x 39 inches. 
 Lent by Charles gassiot, esq* 
 Painted 1872. 
 
 James Tissot, genre painter — living. Pupil of Flandrin 
 and Lamothe. Exhibited at the Salon up to 1870. 
 Latterly he has entirely changed the character of his work 
 the ten years from 1886 being occupied in the Holy 
 Land with the painting of a series of pictures (365 in 
 number), illustrative of the Life of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 and the exhibition of these works was opened in London 
 at the Lemercier Callery, 35, New Bond Street, in the 
 Spring of 1896. 
 
 45A FLEURS VARIEES. 
 
 Painted by H. fantin-latour. 
 Canvas 17 x 22 inches. 
 Lent by MRS. edwards. 
 
GALLERY L 
 
 SHRIMPERS. 
 
 Painted by pierre billet. 
 Canvas ^2 x 66 inches. 
 Lent by mons. Charles guasco. 
 Exhibited at the Paris Salon, 1888. 
 
 Pierre Billet. Landscape and genre painter — living. 
 Entered his father's business of sugar making and distilling, 
 but soon quitted it and studied with Jules Breton, but 
 quitted that master for a while in order to preserve his 
 own independent outlook on nature, and frequented in 
 the meantime the studios of the more practical painters, 
 among whom Meissonier was the chief. 
 
 PORTRAIT OF MADAME LA 
 MARQUISE C. DE G. 
 
 Painted by LEON comerre. 
 Canvas 64 x 41 inches. 
 Lent by prince Georges stirbey. 
 Exhibited at the Salon, 1886. 
 
 p HREE-QUARTER length figure ; life-size, elegantly 
 
 1 poised, facing the spectator ; vivid blue costume, 
 with the bodice richly ornamented with pearls. Her 
 right hand lightly rests on a walking-stick. An effective 
 feature of the background is the deep blue pillar to the 
 
 Leon Comerre. Genre and portrait painter — living. 
 Pupil of Cabanel. Won the Prix de Rome, 1875. 
 
 left. 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
 B 2 
 
GALLERY IL 
 
 CHILDREN LISTENING TO AN 
 OLD PIPER. 
 
 Painted by antoine and louis le nain. Cr^Jt^ 
 Panel io| x 14^ inches. 
 
 Lent by THE duke of Sutherland. '^^^hv^ 
 
 AN old man is playing on a pipe and has attracted 
 five children, who are gathered around him 
 listening. Waagen says of this little picture, that it 
 " has all the simplicity and truth of feeling and decision 
 of forms ; the impasto and the powerful colouring by 
 which these two artists are so advantageously dis- 
 tinguished from most of their countrymen." 
 
 Antoine le Nain, born 1588; died 1648; and Louis le 
 Nain, born 1593; died 1648, painted conjointly many 
 pictures of domestic and rustic genre — unequalled for 
 natural expression and unmistakable truthfulness. 
 
38 
 
 GALLERY II. 
 
 49 A GARDEN SCENE. 
 
 Painted by j. H. fragonard. 
 Panel 20^ x 15 inches. 
 
 Lent by the RT. HON. lord pirbright, p.c. 
 
 A LADY standing, holding a walking stick, and talking 
 to a gentleman seated. To the left is a garden 
 through which a gay company of ladies and gentlemen is 
 seen approaching. 
 
 Jean Honore Fragonard. Born 1732. Died 1806. 
 Genre and decorative painter ; began life as a notary's 
 clerk ; then became a pupil of Chardin. He took the 
 Prix de Rome at the age of twenty. Chardin's scenes 
 of peasant life were not, however, of sufficient charm 
 for Fragonard, and this led him to become the pupil 
 of Boucher and to adopt subjects similar to his, illus- 
 trative often — and with surprising realism and license — 
 of the immoralities of his time. His original power as 
 a painter was not above devoting itself to light and airy 
 incidents in which grace of costume constituted a promi- 
 nent feature, and in which each frill and flounce had the 
 finish of a miniature. His works never wear the aspect 
 of laboured compositions, but suggest rather the effort to 
 seize the detected grace of a momentary position, with its 
 significant disposition of dress. His art, indeed, was so 
 graceful and of such dainty charm, that in his lifetime it 
 suggested such sayings of him that he was born " in and 
 of the laughing land of Provence." 
 
GALLERY U. 
 
 39 
 
 o A LADY AND GENTLEMAN 
 PLAYING CARDS. 
 
 Painted by Robert tournieres (called Robert 
 
 DE LA HAYE). 
 
 Canvas 13 x ii inches. 
 
 Lent by the marquess of bute, k.t. 
 
 Robert le Vrac Tournieres. Born 1668. Died 1752. 
 Genre and portrait painter. Pupil of Lucas de la Haye, a 
 Carmelite friar, and later of Bon Boullongue in Paris. 
 His small genre pictures after the manner of Gerard Dow 
 and Metzu, became so popular that he eventually gave up 
 for the pursuit of these, his portrait and historical painting. 
 He was a favourite with the Regent, Duke of Orleans, who 
 took great delight in seeing him paint. 
 
 I A GARDEN SCENE. " 
 
 Painted by antoine watteau. 
 
 Panel 16 ^ x i2| inches. 
 
 Lent by charles Morrison, esq. 
 
 A COMPOSITION of seven figures in a garden. In 
 the foreground to the right is a gentleman in 
 red, who is playing a guitar to a lady in white, who sits 
 at his side, and who is amusing herself with a spaniel, 
 to the entertainment of a child in pink sitting ivt her feet. 
 The other four figures are to the left of the picture and 
 two of them are lovers. 
 
 ( For notice o^lhc Painter s life iee No. 59. ) 
 
GALLERY IL 
 
 LA FONTAINE. (THE WELL.) 
 
 Painted by j. s. chardin. 
 
 Panel 14^ x i6i inches. 
 
 Lent by sir Francis cook, bart. 
 
 A WOMAN in a stooping attitude drawing w^ater, or 
 wine, from a copper vessel into a large dark jar. 
 White bodice, blue apron, white cap. Another woman 
 is seen through the open door sweeping an adjoining 
 room. 
 
 Engraved by C. N. cochin. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of M. le Chevalier de la 
 Roque. 
 
 ( For Biographical note of llic Painter s life sec No. 68.^ 
 
 THE DUET. 
 
 Painted by antoine watteau. 
 
 Panel 7i x 6 inches. 
 
 Lent by sir francis cook, bart. 
 
 THIS exquisite specimen shows a man and a woman 
 singing. The woman holds a page of music on 
 which the light of a candle falls — which the man is 
 holding. 
 
 (For notice of the Painter's life see No. 59.^ 
 
GALLERY II. 4 1 
 
 54 A GIRL WITH A YOUNG BIRD. 
 
 Painted by j. B. greuze. 
 
 Panel 9x7^ inches. 
 
 Lent by lord wantage, v.c., k.c.b. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter's life see No, 56 ). 
 
 55 LES DEUX AMIS. (THE TWO 
 FRIENDS.) .A^.'^^-^—t 
 
 Painted by N. lancret. 
 
 Copper II X 14 inches. j^--^ ^ 
 
 Lent by j. pierpont morgan, esq. ,^ • - , 
 
 A COMPOSITION of three figures in a landscape. 
 Sitting to the left is a dainty little lady in a blue 
 and white striped gown, whose chin is being coyly 
 touched by a gentleman in a rich brown costume who 
 is seated next to her ; he is apparently introducing to 
 her another gentleman richly attired in rose-colour 
 and white. By the side of the lady is a basket. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter s life see No. 84.^ 
 
42 
 
 GALLERY IL 
 
 56 HEAD OF A BOY. 
 
 Painted by jean baptiste greuze. 
 
 Canvas 17 x 14 inches. 
 
 Lent by the RT. HON. lord pirbright, p.c. 
 
 THE picture is a portrait of the Artist's son, and is 
 recorded in Smith's Catalogue Raisonne " as " A 
 boy with an interesting countenance, indicating admira- 
 tion." 
 
 In the Collection of M. D. Mariette until 1775. 
 In the Collection of M. Senneville until 1780. 
 
 Jean Baptiste Greuze. Born 1725. Died 1805. 
 Genre and portrait painter. Pupil of Groudon and of the 
 French Academy ; studying later in Italy. His happiest 
 subjects are taken from the quiet daily life of the middle 
 classes, "The Broken Pitcher," "The Village Bride," and 
 " The Sleeping Girl," testifying by their titles the character 
 of his art, in which grace and design, gentle movement 
 and tenderness of expression constitute their charm. The 
 last year of his life was passed in very poor circumstances; 
 the large fortune he had amassed was all lost in the great 
 Revolution, and the public had grown to neglect both 
 him and his work in their admiration for the new school 
 of David. The beautiful face which appears in so many 
 of his pictures is doubtless that of his wife, Mademoiselle 
 Babuty, Vvhose extravagance and worthless character led 
 him to separate from her long before his death. 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
 43 
 
 57 MARIE ANTOINETTE AND 
 HER CHILDREN. 
 
 Painted by madame vigee le brun. 
 Panel 8x6 inches. 
 
 Lent by the RT. HON. lord pirbright, p.c. 
 
 MARIE ANTOINETTE, the beautiful daughter of 
 the Royal House of Austria, was born in Vienna 
 in 1755. Before she was fifteen she wedded the Dauphin 
 of France, afterwards Louis XVI, and five years later the 
 youthful couple succeeded to the throne, counting them- 
 selves "too young to reign." She is seen in the picture 
 in those days of splendour which preceded the outbreak 
 of the terrible Revolution. She herself was guillotined 
 in 1793, after fourteen months of anguish in the prison in 
 the Temple ; " beautiful, high-born, that wert so foully 
 hurled low." Of the three children here pictured with 
 her, the Dauphin on the right died at the age of eight, 
 before the breaking out of the Revolution ; the child on 
 his mother's knee is the Due de Normandie, who suc- 
 ceeded his brother as Dauphin and died in his eleventh 
 year, after twelve months of neglect and squalor in the 
 clutches of his gaoler Simon ; the little girl to the left is 
 Marie Therese, Madame Royale, who after more than 
 three years' imprisonment in the Temple, was released ; 
 she returned to her mother's family in Austria, where 
 she married, four years later, the Due d'Angouleme, and 
 lived to the age of seventy -two, dying in 185 1. After 
 her return to Paris at the age of thirty-six, nothing would 
 induce her ever to allow her carriage to pass through the 
 Place de la Concorde, the spot where the guillotine had 
 taken the lives of her beloved father and mother. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter's life see No. 
 
44 
 
 GALLERY II. 
 
 58 ACTORS OF ITALIAN COMEDY. 
 
 Painted by antoine watteau. 
 vJ^^""^^^^ Panel 10 x 8 inches. 
 
 Lent by asher wertheimer, esq. 
 ^ ,^A.-/v.r^ Engraved by Charles simoneau. 
 
 A GROUP of five figures seen to the knees, one of 
 them a lady, in white dress, is dancing, and the 
 other four figures are behind her. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter's life see No. sg.J 
 
 59 LA GAMME D'AMOUR. 
 
 Painted by antoine watteau. 
 Canvas 20 x 23 inches. 
 Lent by jULius wernher, esq. 
 
 A COMPOSITION of eight figures in a garden. A lady 
 and a gentleman occupy the foreground, both of 
 them richly attired. The gentleman is playing on a 
 mandolin, and bending over a music book which the lady, 
 ^seated on the ground beside him, is holding open as she 
 glances up at him. To the right another group is seen 
 of four figures, and beyond these a lady and gentleman 
 ^ are walking away in company. 
 
 Engraved by L. P. le bas. 
 Collection of M. D. Mariette. 
 In the collection of Mrs. Lyne Stephens until 1895. 
 
 ^ ^ Antoine Watteau. Bom at Valenciennes, 1684. Died 
 ^^V^ '' at Nogent-sur-Marne, 1721. Son of a tiler. His educa- 
 
 tion was of the slightest, and without money or resources 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
 45 
 
 of any kind he made his way to Paris. Studied there 
 under Gillot and with the decorative painter Claude 
 Audran, copying also incessantly the chief paintings of 
 Rubens and Paolo Veronese. His great reputation rests 
 on his unrivalled grace in depicting the life of the early 
 portion of the eighteenth century, in pastoral scenes or in 
 scenes where the pleasures of the upper circles are por- 
 trayed either in music, dance, or festive gathering, investing 
 them all with a subtle charm the originality of which had 
 been up to then unknown in art, an "airy nothing," which as 
 Mrs. Stranahan observes in her work upon French art, 
 " gives to woman her coquetry and attraction, a charm 
 far above that of physical beauty." He constantly erased 
 and repainted his pictures, and it was only by decisive 
 measures that those who bought his works could get them 
 out of his hands. It was in 1721 that he painted the 
 celebrated signboard for the shop of the dealer Gersaint, 
 with whom he resided. It was afterwards cut into two 
 halves, which were acquired in Paris at different times and 
 from different persons, by the agents of Frederick the 
 Great, of Prussia, and are both now in the Old Palace at 
 Berlin. Examples of Watteau are rare, and the National 
 Gallery is without one. 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
 o PORTRAIT OF AMELIA, NINTH 
 BARONESS CONYERS, AT THE 
 AGE OF TEN. SHE BECAME 
 THE WIFE OF FRANCIS, FIFTH 
 DUKE OF LEEDS. 
 
 Painted by F. H. drouais. 
 
 Canvas, oval 2S x 2^ inches. 
 
 Lent by the COUNTESS of yarborough. 
 
 Dated 1764. 
 
 V PRETTY child standing towards the right, but 
 
 ornamented with jewelry and lace, and blue collarette 
 with jewels. In her hair two blue bows, and a bracelet 
 of pearls on her right arm. She is carrying a basket of 
 flowers, a rose from which she is daintily holding in her 
 right hand. 
 
 Francois Hubert Drouais. Born 1727. Died 1775. 
 Portrait painter. Son and pupil of Hubert Drouais, and 
 later of Carle van Loo and Boucher. He painted very 
 many of the famous men and women of his day, including 
 several members of the reigning family of France. One 
 of his most beautiful portraits is that of Madame de 
 Pompadour, in the Museum at Orleans. 
 
 fully facing the spectator ; blue bodice richly 
 
GALLERY IL 
 
 47 
 
 I MADAME DE POMPADOUR. 
 
 Painted by Francois boucher. 
 
 Panel on Porcelain 8^ x 6i inches. 
 
 Lent by the rt. hon. lord pirbright, p.c. 
 
 ]*ULL length figure seated to the left on a sofa, 
 
 1 leaning on her left elbow on the cushions and hold- 
 ing an open book in her right hand ; blue dress with pink 
 ribbons and covered with pink roses ; roses in her hair ; 
 by her side is a writing table, and a dog is at her feet. 
 Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, the 
 celebrated favourite of Louis XV of France, was born in 
 Paris in 1722. She was of modest parentage, but under 
 the tutelage of her accomplished mother she early 
 acquired that air of distinction and grace of manner for 
 which she became noted, and which, added to her 
 personal beauty, quickly brought a suitor for her hand 
 in the person of M. D'Etoilles, to whom she was wedded 
 at the age of fifteen. Her first meeting with Louis was 
 at a masque ball some five years after her marriage, 
 the king being then about 32. Frequent interviews 
 ensued between the two in the beautiful forest of Sen art, 
 and a few months later, at her own request, she was 
 divorced from her husband. The Marquisate de 
 Pompadour was then bestowed upon her, to which 
 was subsequently added the more lucrative Marquisate 
 de Crecy. Succeeding the Duchesse de Chateauroux in 
 the King's favors, she rose ultimately, owing to the 
 King's laxity of rule, to a position which gave her entire 
 control of the political affairs of France. Her luxur}^ 
 was fabulous, Sevres porcelain, Chinese lacquer work, 
 pictures, statues, and costly furniture were collected at 
 her dictate for the castles and palaces in which she 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
 moved, and to which her own beautiful presence added 
 lustre. Over the "weariness" of the King she exerted 
 a charm which no other influence could. She died at 
 Versailles at the age of forty-one, having enjoyed 
 practically supreme power with Louis for twenty years. 
 The beautiful castle of Bellevue which he gave her, 
 and which the art of Pigale, Boucher and Van Loo 
 made a wonder, was entirely destroyed in the Great 
 Revolution. 
 
 Francois Boucher. Born 1703. Died 1770. History 
 and genre painter. Drew first for engravers ; secured the 
 First Prize at the Academy at the age of twenty, and then 
 he went to Rome with Carle Van Loo, on whose death he 
 became first painter to the King. The portrait of the 
 all-powerful favourite, Madame de Pompadour, was painted 
 by him several times. Although a sense of the voluptuous 
 pervades his work, it is nevertheless seldom associated 
 with any distinct disregard of delicacy. The indifferent 
 morals of the age in which he Hved were accountable, no 
 doubt in large measure, for the false idea of expression in 
 which he indulged, and in his mythological subjects and 
 pleasing groups or in his elaborate wall and ceiling 
 decoration, of w^hich much was carried out by him, 
 one looks in vain for any elevated motive. Grace of line 
 and delicacy of colour are relied upon to charm, and 
 these qualities are rarely absent from his work. His 
 productions drew from Diderot the well-known expression, 
 " What colours, what variety ! This man has all but 
 truth." 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
 49 
 
 PORTRAIT OF 
 MADEMOISELLE LE DOUX, 
 
 Painted by mademoiselle le doux. 
 
 Panel — Oval loj x inches. 
 
 Lent by asher wertheimer, esq. 
 
 In the Collection of J. H. Anderton until 1879. 
 
 NICAISE. 
 
 Painted by N. lancret. 
 
 Canvas 11 x 14 inches. 
 
 Lent by j. pierpont morgan, esq. 
 
 A COMPOSITION of three figures. A lady in white 
 dress with a posy of flowers in her bosom is 
 holding out her hand to a gentleman in brown, who has 
 on his right arm some richly coloured drapery. Among 
 the trees to the right another female figure is seen. 
 
 Vous savez des etofifes vendre 
 Et leur prIx en perfection ; 
 Mais ce que vaut I'occasion 
 Vous I'ignorez, allez I'apprendre. 
 
 Con^e lie La Fontaine VII. Livre Ih . 
 
 Engraved by champollion. 
 
 Collection of the Baron de Beurnonville until 1881. 
 
 Collection of Mrs. Lyne Stephens until 1895. 
 
 ( For notice of tJie Painter s life see No. 84. j 
 
50 
 
 GALLERY IL 
 
 64 A BACCHANTE. 
 
 Painted by j. b. greuze. 
 
 Canvas 18 x 14 inches. 
 
 Lent by the rt. hon. lord pirbright, p.c. 
 
 IN Smith's Catalogue Raisonne, this example is re- 
 corded thus : — 
 
 " A bust of a pretty girl represented in the character of a 
 Bacchante ; her countenance is animated with smiles and 
 her fair complexion set off with dark hair, entwined with 
 vine foliage ; the head inclines gracefully on the left 
 shoulder and her light and scanty dress leaves tlie right 
 breast exposed. An exquisite performance." 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter'' s life see No. 56.^ 
 
 65 PORTRAIT OF A LADY. 
 
 Painted by J. H. fragonard. 
 Panel 9^- x 10 inches. 
 
 ^ tVt*v^ L^l^t by ^T. HON. lord PIRBRIGHT, P.C. 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^ Painted 1794. 
 
 A LADY seated on a stone bench, facing the left, in a 
 I 1 garden of flowering plants and with a landscape 
 
 in view. Warm, grey costume trimmed with pale pink ; 
 high hat with pale roses in it ; crimson shoes orna- 
 mented with jewelled buckles. A brown-covered book 
 is in her left hand and an elegant jewelled bracelet is on 
 her left wrist. Rich dark blue drapery is on the ground 
 before her, where also lie two other richly-bound books — 
 one of them open. 
 
 ( For notice o f the Painter s life sec No. 49. ) 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
 51 
 
 66 THE SONG. 
 
 Painted by antoine and Louis le nain. 
 Canvas 11 x 16 inches. 
 Lent by lord aldenham. 
 
 f For notice of the Painters' lives see No. 48 ). 
 
 67 GARDEN SCENE, WITH 
 PIERROT. 
 
 Painted by antoine watteau. 
 
 Canvas i8 x 15 inches. 
 
 Lent by Charles Morrison, esq. 
 
 A COMPOSITION of six figures on a terrace. The 
 chief personage is a pierrot who is playing a 
 mandohn, to the entertainment of three ladies and two 
 gentlemen, who are grouped in engaging attitudes behind 
 him. The aspect is that of a still summer day. A large 
 stone vase stands high to the right, and on the left a 
 basket of flowers is lying on the ground ; soft hazy 
 distance in which a group of trees stands, among which 
 is a statue. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter s life see No. 59.^ 
 
52 
 
 GALLERY II. 
 
 68 LA BLANCHISSEUSE. (THE 
 WASHERWOMAN.) 
 
 Painted by J. s. chardin. 
 
 Panel 14^ x 16 J inches. 
 
 Lent by SIR Francis cook, bart. 
 
 A WOMAN at a washing tub and a child blowing 
 bubbles ; another woman is seen in an adjoining 
 room hanging out clothes. A pan for receiving the 
 clothes is at the left. 
 
 Engraved by c. N. cochin. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of M. le Chevalier de la 
 Roque. 
 
 Jean Simeon Chardin. Born 1699. Died 1779. 
 Genre and still-life painter. Pupil of Cazes and of Noel 
 Nicolas Coypel. The painting of a barber's sign first 
 attracted attention to him. By 1741 he had established 
 his reputation as a painter of peasant and middle-class 
 life, executed always with a certain grace peculiarly 
 French. Latterly he worked in pastel. His works are 
 rare. They are remarkable for neatness of finish, harmony 
 of tone, and for the careful arrangement of light and 
 shade. 
 
 69 LA CONFIDENCE 
 
 Painted by Francois boucher. 
 Canvas 26 x 21 inches. 
 Lent by asher wertheimer, esq. 
 Engraved by simon charles miger. 
 
 ( For nolicc of the Painter's life see No. 61 J. 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
 53 
 
 70 PORTRAIT OF HIS FATHER. 
 
 Painted by j. b. greuze. 
 
 Canvas 17 x 14 inches. 
 
 Lent by E. A. leatham, esq. 
 
 ( For iioiice of the Painter's life see No. 56 ). 
 
 71 A FETE CHAMPETRE. 
 
 Painted by A. watteau. 
 Canvas 23 x 29 inches. 
 Lent by the marquise de lav alette. 
 
 A COMPOSITION of nineteen figures in a wooded 
 garden. Towards the left, in the foreground, is a 
 couple dancing to the pipers, who are seated to the left. 
 A lady in white satin gown and ample pink cloak, and 
 with two children endeavouring to engage her attention, 
 is regarding the dancers, and about the scene are several 
 couples in animated coquetry. 
 
 Formerly in the collection of Lord Henry Seymour. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter s life see No. 59. j 
 
54 
 
 GALLERY H. 
 
 72 MADAME DE LAUBESPINE. 
 
 Painted by Nicholas de largilliere. 
 
 Canvas 31 x 25 inches. 
 
 Lent by monsieur sedelmeyer. 
 
 HALF-LENGTH figure of a lady ; white hair with 
 flowers and jewels in it. Low bodice of white 
 lace and sumptuous crimson drapery, lined with white 
 satin. The left hand across her right bosom. Landscape 
 in background. 
 
 Nicholas de Largilliere. Born 1656. Died 1746. 
 In his eleventh year he became the pupil of Antoon 
 Gouban, at Antwerp, whom he assisted by painting the still 
 life accessories in his pictures. In his nineteenth year he 
 came to England and found work in the Royal Palaces 
 under Sir Peter Lely. This brought him under the notice 
 of Charles II, whose portrait he painted, together with 
 those of many of the nobility. He then settled in Paris 
 and at once obtained a large practice among the bourgeoise 
 and professional classes. In 1686 he was admitted into the 
 French Academy, and it is curious to note that, although 
 he is now remembered only as a portrait painter, and as 
 such has been styled "the French Van Dyck," yet in his 
 own day he had a great reputation as a painter of historical 
 subjects ; and after the deaths of Le Brun and Mignard 
 he occupied the foremost place in the French School in 
 that branch of art. 
 
GALLERY IL 
 
 55 
 
 73 THE COUNTESS DE FLAHAULT 
 AND HER SON. w , 
 
 Painted by madame guiard. 
 Canvas 40 x 32 inches. 
 Lent by the marquise de lavalette. 
 Painted 1785. 
 
 A LADY seated to the left, holding a child who is 
 playing with a miniature. White gown, blue 
 bodice, lace kerchief over the shoulders, purple drapery 
 over chair behind. 
 
 Adelaide Labille-des-Vertus. Bom 1749. Died 1803. 
 Pupil of her father-in-law, Frangois E. Vincent, and of 
 Latour. At an early age she became the wife of M. Guiard. 
 She devoted her talent mainly to the painting of por- 
 traits and miniatures. She was received into the French 
 Academy in 1782. 
 
 74 A GROUP OF CHILDREN. 
 
 Painted by F. boucher. 
 Canvas 28 x 28-^ inches. 
 Lent by Alfred c. de rothschild, esq. 
 
 A COMPOSITION of four nude figures of children, 
 in a rocky landscape, amusing themselves with 
 two bird's nests or cages. 
 
 ^For votice of the Fainter s life see No. 6l.) 
 
56 
 
 GALLERY IL 
 
 75 LE DESIR DE PL AIRE (The desire 
 to please); or, THE TOILETTE. 
 
 Painted by j. B. pater. 
 Canvas 21 x 26 inches. 
 Lent by the marquise de lavalette. 
 
 A COMPOSITION of ten figures. In the centre of a 
 room a lady is seated before a looking glass, and 
 a maid is dressing her hair ; other women are waiting 
 around with various toilet articles. A priest is entering 
 the doorway, through which a glimpse of a garden is 
 seen. In the foreground is a spaniel playing with some 
 roses which have fallen from a basket. 
 
 Ce galant attirail qu'un gout exquis eclaire, 
 Iris, a des charmes bien doux ; 
 Mais il faudrait encor pour etre sur de plaire 
 Que telle qui s'en sert eut les traits comme vous. 
 
 Engraved by Louis surugue. 
 Collection of M. L'Abbe de Mannville. 
 
 Jean Baptists Joseph Pater. Born 1695. Died 1736. 
 Genre painter. His father, a sculptor, imparted to him 
 the first principles of art. He then became the pupil of 
 Watteau, whose uncertain temperament, however, soon 
 brought about a separation ; but Pater's sympathy with 
 his master's work was great, and when Watteau's end was 
 approaching, Pater was sent for, and he worked daily 
 under his master's eye, receiving such instruction from 
 him as thoroughly to imbue him with the spirit that 
 animated Watteau. In subject and composition, Pater's 
 work closely resembles his master's, and his colour is rich, 
 but his drawing is not so precise, nor is his handling so 
 firm and deliberate in its completeness. 
 
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GALLERY IL 57 
 
 "LA VOLUPTE." 
 
 Painted by JEAN baptiste greuze. 
 
 Canvas 15^ x 13 inches. 
 
 Lent by THE RT. HON. lord pirbright, P.O. 
 
 THIS picture was painted for Queen Marie Antoinette, 
 by whom it was given to one of her pages, Prince 
 Walburg, from one of the descendants of whom it was 
 purchased by the grandfather of the present possessor. 
 
 ( For iiotice of the Painter'' s life see No. 56. ) 
 
GALLERY IL 
 
 DUG DE PENTHIEVRE. 
 
 Painted by J. M. nattier. 
 
 Canvas 94 x 71 inches. 
 
 Lent by H. L. bischoffsheim, esq. 
 
 LOUIS-JEAN-MARIE DE BOURBON, Due de 
 Penthievre. Bom 1725. Died 1793. He was 
 the youngest legitimate son of King Louis XIV. 
 
 The Duke stands facing the right and holding in his hand 
 a black hat with white ostrich feather. Silver grey 
 costume with short black velvet cloak. To the left is 
 the stooping figure of an attendant in scarlet livery, 
 ornamented with silver ; he is drav>ring away from his 
 master's figure the heavy folds of a richly gold- 
 embroidered robe. In the rear is seen a gilded couch 
 upholstered in pale blue, and on it elaborate articles of 
 apparel are thrown, gloves, scarves, stars and other 
 jewelled insignia. The silvery effect of this beautiful 
 work is enhanced by the servant's scarlet livery, which 
 though bright is not obtrusive on the spectator's eye. 
 
 Formerly in the Collection of the Due de Richelieu. 
 A small finished study of this picture is in the Wallace 
 Collection at Hertford House. 
 
 Jean Marc Nattier. Bom 1685. Died 1766. His- 
 tory and portrait painter. Son and pupil of Marc Nattier. 
 Studied much in the gallery of the Luxembourg, where he 
 copied for the engraver the pictures there by Rubens. In 
 Amsterdam he painted the portraits of Peter the Great 
 and Catherine I, as well as many members of the Russian 
 Court. He won the first prize at the French Academy at 
 the age of fifteen. There is a life of Nattier written by 
 his daughter, Madame Torgal. 
 
GALLERY U. 
 
 59 
 
 78 L'ESCARPOLETTE. (THE 
 SWING.) 
 
 Painted by N. lancret. 
 
 Canvas iS x 22 inches. 
 
 Lent by the marquise de lav alette. 
 
 A COMPOSITION of twelve figures, the chief of 
 whom is a young lady in a pink dress with white 
 drapery across it who is swinging between two trees. 
 Two couples are coquetting, one on either side of the 
 swing, and in the foreground to the left is a man with a 
 red tunic, who holds a rope attached to the swing, and 
 beyond whom is a most charmingly painted landscape, 
 with a river and a bridge. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter'' s life see No. 84.^ 
 
 79 HEAD OF A GIRL. 
 
 Painted by J. B. greuze. ' i j " 
 
 Canvas i8 x 14^ inches. ^^^a^^^^ 
 Lent by c. J. galloway, esq. - ^ 
 
 A 
 
 GIRL looking over her left shoulder. Fair hair ; ^ 
 blue ribbon in hair which falls over the left """^/^ 
 
 shoulder. White transparent drapery on either side and 
 a yellow band of ribbon tied in front. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter's life see No. 56. ) 
 
60 GALLERY II. 
 
 80 PORTRAIT OF A LADY. 
 
 Painted by Madame vigee le brun. 
 Canvas 41 x 32 inches. 
 »^ Lent by j. pierpont morgan, esq. 
 
 ^ Q BATED figure towards the right, on a green divan ; 
 
 1 IV^ w3 face turned full to the spectator, right arm resting 
 4- ^ upon a cushion, white muslin dress, claret coloured 
 
 ^ jj^ jacket. 
 
 ^ Collection of Mrs. Lyne Stephens until 1895. 
 
 OA n 
 
 ^ Madame Marie Louise Elizabeth Le Brun {nee 
 
 ^^'^^''^^ Vigee). Bom 1755. Died 1842. Portrait, history and 
 
 ' if?^^ landscape painter. Pupil of Briard and Joseph Vernet, 
 
 and a great student of the old masters in the Louvre. 
 She was twenty-four when she painted the first of the 
 twenty-five portraits which she executed of Marie 
 Antoinette, with whom she was on terms of the closest 
 ( intimacy. She withdrew to Italy during the great French 
 - VA^- Revolution, painting while there a portrait of Lady 
 Y)jC^ V*-^ Hamilton as a Bacchante. She was an Associate Member 
 \ of nearly all the European Academies. 
 
 81 CHILDREN SPORTING WITH A 
 GOAT. 
 
 Painted by f. boucher. 
 Canvas 28 x 28J inches. 
 Lent by Alfred c. de rothschild, esq. 
 
 A COMPOSITION of five figures representing children 
 playing with a goat. One of them, whose head is 
 encircled with vine leaves, is riding the goat, and the one 
 behind, pushing it, is carrying a large cluster of grapes. 
 
 (For notice of the Painter's life see No. 6i.J 
 
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GALLERY IL 
 
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 82 SCENE D'AMOUR. 
 
 Painted by L. trinquesse. 
 
 Canvas 26 x 20 inches. 
 
 Lent by Reginald vaile, esq. 
 
 A COMPOSITION of three figures in a richly 
 wooded garden. A youth in pale yellow coat is 
 passionately kissing a young girl who wears a white 
 satin dress, over which on either side red drapery falls ; 
 in her bosom is a rose. Another girl in brown, with blue 
 sash and yellow hat, is attempting to draw her companion 
 away. Above the couple, to the left, is the figure of 
 Cupid about to shoot an arrow ; and in the background 
 are seen the leafy recesses of the garden. 
 Signed and Dated 1786. 
 
 L. R. Trinquesse. Portrait and genre painter. Pupil 
 of Largilliere. Flourished in Paris and at the Hague in 
 the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was 
 admitted into the Guild at the Hague in 1767, and 
 exhibited at the Academy in Paris as late as 1793. His 
 works are rare. 
 
 83 PORTRAIT OF MADAME DE 
 BOVUILLE. 
 
 Painted by J. M. nattier. 
 Canvas 29 x 23 inches. 
 Lent by lord burton. 
 
 A LADY seated to the left but turning to the 
 spectator. Richly ornamented low bodice ; blue 
 drapery over the shoulders fastened in front by a large 
 jewel. In her right hand she holds a posy of flowers. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter s life see No. 77 J. 
 
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 GALLERY II. 
 
 84 A GARDEN PARTY. 
 
 Painted by Nicolas lancret. 
 
 Canvas 35 x 38 inches. 
 
 Lent by lord wantage, v.c, k.c.b. 
 
 Nicolas Lancret. Born 1690. Died 1743. Genre 
 painter. PupiLof Pierre D'Ulin and Gillot, but coming 
 under the influence of Watteau, his works, thereafter, bore 
 great resemblance to those of that graceful and accom- 
 plished master, to the extent not unfrequently of their 
 being mistaken for his ; but the poetic warmth and 
 deliberate charm of Watteau and his beauty of line and 
 adroit arrangement is not so pronounced in Lancret's 
 work, whose productions, though often extremely capti- 
 vating, are those of a disciple or imitator, rather than those 
 of a master. Yet much of his work is very beautiful, 
 and expressive of the lightness of the age in which he 
 lived, its gallantries and frivolities, and scenes of pastoral 
 gaiety. 
 
 85 CUPID AND CHILDREN. 
 
 Painted by F. boucher. 
 
 Canvas 36 x 39 inches. 
 
 Lent by Alfred c. de rothschild, esq. 
 
 A GROUP of four nude figures of children. One of 
 them is represented as Cupid, whose white wings are 
 seen as he lies, apparently in slumber, on some sheaves 
 of corn, where some blue drapery is spread; his red 
 quiver full of arrows lies on the ground beside him. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter s life see No. 6i.) 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
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 86 L'HIVER. (WINTER.) 
 
 Painted by N. lancret. 
 
 Canvas 30 x 25 inches. 
 
 Lent by the marquise de lavalette. 
 
 A COMPOSITION often figures, all ladies, in a lofty 
 room, some of whom are seated at a table and 
 playing cards. One lady to the left, occupies a large 
 red covered chair and is playing with a cat. Cards and 
 a letter are strewn about the floor. 
 
 Centre Texces d'un froid souvent insupportable 
 Aux dames en hiver le bal est favorable 
 iSIais dans cet exercice on ne saurait passer 
 Quelqu'en soit le plaisir jour et nuit a danser. 
 
 Aussi quand on est lasse on fait une reprise 
 d'Ombre, en chambre bien close et proche d'un bon feu, 
 Pour lors bravant le froid chacun joue a sa guise 
 Jusques au petit chat qui veut etre du jeu. 
 
 Engraved by j. P. le bas. 
 
 In the Collection of James Watt, Esq., until 1849. 
 
 ( For noiice of the Painter s life see No. S4.J 
 
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 GALLERY IL 
 
 87 LA MARQUISE DE LA 
 FERRONNAYS. 
 
 HALF-LENGTH figure of a lady seated, facing 
 the spectator; pale blue and white costume, black 
 ribbon round her neck— a white and tan spaniel is on 
 her knees. 
 
 Painted by carle Vx\n loo. 
 
 Canvas 36 x 29 inches. 
 
 Lent by monseiur sedelmeyer. 
 
 Charles Andre van Loo. Bom 1705. Died 1765. 
 Llistory and portrait painter. Pupil of his brother Jean 
 Baptiste van Loo, and later, in Italy, of Benedetto Luti and 
 the Sculptor le Gros. 
 
 88 HAULING IN THE NETS. 
 
 Painted by eugene isabey. 
 
 Canvas 25 x 37 inches. 
 
 Lent by sir james bell, bart. 
 
 Eugene Louis Gabriel Isabey. Born 1804. Died 1886. 
 Son of the minature painter, J. B. Isabey. Marine painter, 
 occupying the first position in that capacity for many years 
 in France. Officer of the Legion or Honour, 1852. 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
 65 
 
 THE DREAM OF THE INFANT 
 JESUS. 
 
 Painted by o. tassaert. 
 Canvas 22 x iS inches. 
 Lent by MONS. durand ruel. 
 
 Nicolas Franqois Octave Tassaert 
 Died 1874. History and portrait painter. 
 Gerand and Guillon Lethiere. 
 
 Born 1800. 
 Pupil of Pierre 
 
 THE approaching STORM. 
 
 Painted by charles jacque. 
 Canvas 28 x 39 inches. ^ ^ ^ ^ 
 
 Lent by the RT. HON. h. d. davies, m.p., lor'd^ y 
 
 MAYOR. ^ ' ^ 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter'' s life see No. 94/ 
 
 LE PATURAGE. 
 
 Painted by julien dupre. n (j i J 
 
 Canvas 15 x 22 inches. 
 
 Lent by Alexander young, esq. ktv^ 
 
 Painted 1882. 
 
 Etched by le conteux. 
 
 Julien Dupre. Landscape and genre painter — living. 
 Pupii of Pils, Lehmann and Langee, 
 
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 GALLERY II. 
 
 92 THE SCATTERED HERD. 
 
 Painted by E. van marcke. 
 Canvas 34 x 57 inches. 
 
 Lent by the RT. HON. H. D. da vies, m.p., lord 
 
 MAYOR. 
 
 ^ Emile van Marcke. Bom 1827. Died 1893. Cattle 
 painter. Pupil of Troyon. Chevalier of the Legion of 
 Honour. 
 
 93 SOLITUDE. ^ 
 
 Painted by j. F. millet. 
 
 Canvas 33 x 43 inches. 
 
 Lent by Alexander young, esq. 
 
 {Fo7- notice of the Painter's life see No. 115). 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
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 94 FOREST PASTURES. 
 
 Painted by Charles jacque. 
 Canvas 25 x 32 inches. 
 
 Lent by the RT. HON. H. D. davies, m.p., lord 
 
 MAYOR. 
 
 Charles Emile Jacque. Bom 1813. Died 1893. 
 Animal and landscape painter. Chevalier of the Legion 
 of Honour, 1867. In his youth he studied as a geographi- 
 cal engraver, and then enlisted as a soldier, remaining in 
 the army for seven years. He then resumed engraving, 
 and a catalogue of his works in that branch of Art 
 numbering four hundred and twenty has been made by 
 Mons. Guiffrey. He worked chiefly at Barbizon — where 
 the peasant folk, their sheep flocks and poultry, and the 
 surrounding forest scenery, engaged alike his pencil and 
 brush. 
 
 95 THE POOL OF THE FAIRIES, 
 FONTAINEBLEAU. 
 
 Painted by LEON belly. 
 Canvas 23 x 20 inches. 
 Lent by madame v. leon belly. 
 Painted 1874. 
 
 Leon Auguste Adolphe Belly. Born 1828. Died 
 1877. Orientalist and portrait painter. Pupil of Troyan 
 and Rousseau. Legion of Honour, 1862. 
 
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 GALLERY II. 
 
 96 CLAIR BOIS, FOREST OF 
 FONTAINEBLEAU. 
 
 Painted by Theodore rousseau. 
 Canvas 27 x 41 inches. 
 
 H y^j^ Lent by james donald, esq. 
 
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 . . Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau. Born at Paris, 
 ^.A/*^^^ 18 1 2. Died at Barbizon, 1867. Landscape painter. 
 ^/LPupil of Pau de St. Martin, Remond and Guillon-Lethiere. 
 Medal of Honour and Officer of the Legion of Honour, 
 1867. Like all original men, the work he first put forward 
 between the age of twenty and twenty-three exhibited a 
 distinct disregard for convention ; and the absence from it 
 of the then popular classical feeling resulted in the rejection 
 of his pictures from the Salon. There ensued as a con- 
 sequence a period of ten years of struggle with adverse 
 fortune. He had taken refuge meanwhile in the Forest of 
 Fontainebleau, in that little village of Barbizon which he 
 and others of like proclivities — Millet, Diaz, Troyon, 
 Dupre — have done so much to immortalize. Here the 
 individuality of the man developed as he realized on his 
 canvases year after year, with ever increasing truth, the 
 subtle aspects of nature, whether in the delicate open 
 atmosphere of the morning lights, or in the profound 
 depths and intricacies of tangled forest into which the 
 lights of evening played with all their richness. 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
 69 
 
 LA BOUILLE, NEAR ROUEN. 
 
 Painted by Georges michel. 
 Canvas 24 x 32 inches. 
 Lent by E. E. leggatt, esq. 
 
 Georges Michel. Bom 1763. Died 1843. Landscape 
 painter. His father was employed in the Paris markets, 
 but he himself was placed with a village curate on the 
 plain of St. Denis, and afterwards apprenticed to the 
 painter Leduc. At one time he was the painting com- 
 panion of Louis Bruandet, at another he was living in the 
 house of a noble amateur, whose pictures he finished. 
 His favourite subject was the great plain which stretches 
 from Montmartre to the North of St. Denis. In spite 
 of the small prices he received for his pictures, he contrived 
 to pass his life in modest comfort. 
 
 LANDSCAPE. - ^ 
 
 Painted by c. F. daubigny. < - ; 
 Panel 16 x 26 inches. 
 Lent by j. s. forbes, esq. 
 
 (For notice of the Painter's life see No. 102. J 
 
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GALLERY II. 
 
 THE RETURN TO PORT, 
 HONFLEUR. 
 
 Painted by eugene isabey. 
 
 Canvas 17 x 25 inches. 
 
 Lent by Reginald vaile, esq. 
 
 The original of the celebrated Mezzo-tint by David 
 
 Lucas. 
 
 Eugene Louis Gabriel Isabey. Born 1804. Died 1886. 
 Son of the minature painter, J. B. Isabey. Marine painter, 
 occupying the first position in that capacity for many years 
 in France. Officer of the Legion of Honour, 1852. 
 
 00 MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF. 
 
 Painted by J. bastien-lepage. 
 Canvas 31 x 23 inches. 
 Lent by J. s. forbes, esq. 
 
 MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF was born on the nth 
 November, i860, at Poltava, in the wild region 
 of the Ukraine, and her celebrated Journal, which she 
 commenced at the age of twelve, was published in 1890. 
 It was written in French and translated by Mathilde 
 Blind, who observes in her preface to the work that the 
 " vast steppes and stirring traditions of her native land 
 form the appropriate background for the extraordinary 
 child, full of quenchless ardour and explosive force." 
 She formed the closest friendship with Bastien-Lepage, 
 the painter of this portrait, and in the summer of 1884, 
 the last year of her life, she met him nearly every day, 
 either in Bastien's sick room or in the Bois de Boulogne. 
 
GALLERY II. 7 1 
 
 Her Journal breaks off abruptly on the 20th October, 
 1884, and eleven days later, while only in her twenty- 
 fourth year, she died ; the painter, for whom she had so 
 great a reverence, dying within six weeks of her, at the 
 age of thirty-six. 
 
 The picture shows the half figure of a child in a black 
 cloak and grey hood, trimmed with pink. She is carry- 
 ing a bag on her arm ; in the background are houses. 
 
 Jules Bastien-Lepage. Bom 1848. Died 1884. 
 History and portrait painter. Pupil of Cabanel. Cheva- 
 lier of the Legion of Honour, 1879. His famous "Joan 
 of Arc " is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. 
 
 I BARKHAT, A RUSSIAN HORSE. 
 
 Painted by D. raffet. 
 Canvas 12^ x 17 inches. 
 Lent by E. E. leggatt, esq. 
 From the San Donato Collection. 
 
 Dennis Auguste Marie Raffet. Born 1804. Died 
 i860. Pupil of Gros and Charlet. Most of his subjects 
 were scenes from military life. He found a liberal patron 
 in Prince Demidoff — for whom the present picture was 
 painted in 1858. 
 
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 GALLERY II. 
 
 1 02 BORDS DE L'OISE. 
 
 Painted by c. F. daubigny. 
 
 Panel 13 x 22 inches. 
 
 Lent by the HON. sir j. c. day. 
 
 Charles Francois Daubigny. Born in Paris, 181 7. 
 Died there, 1878. Landscape painter. Pupil of Paul 
 Delaroche. Officer of the Legion of Honour. He 
 studied for three years in Italy, and exhibited first at the 
 Salon at the age of twenty-one. Clock cases, boxes, and 
 other articles of commerce were painted by him in his 
 earlier youth under the tuition of his father, but his 
 original feeling for the painting of landscape, in its sedate 
 or serious moods or in its more impressive aspects, early 
 manifested itself, and upon it is built his great reputation. 
 
 103 LE MAL AVIS. 
 
 ^ Painted by N. v. diaz. 
 Panel 17 x 11 inches. 
 Lent by J. s. forbes, esq. 
 
 (For notice of the Painter's life see No. 112. J 
 
GALLERY IL 
 
 73 
 
 104 PORT DE MEULAN ; HAULING 
 THE NETS. 
 
 Painted by c. F. daubigny. ^ 0 
 
 Panel 17 x 32 inches. 
 
 Lent by Alexander young, esq. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter's life see No. 102 ). 
 
 105 L'ORAGE. (THE STORM.) 
 
 Painted by N. v. diaz. 
 
 Panel 24 x 30 inches. ' 
 Lent by Alexander young, esq. ^ \^ 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter's life see No. 112.) 
 
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 GALLERY IL 
 
 io6 LE LAC. (THE LAKE.) 
 
 Painted by j. B. COROT. 
 '^■^ Canvas 52 x 62 inches. 
 
 * Lent by Alexander young, esq. 
 
 » Etched by T. N. chauvel. 
 
 ^ ''T^HIS important picture, painted in the sixties, and one 
 
 \^/^ 1 of the largest and most impressive works of 
 
 Corot, passed immediately into the Collection of M. Brun, 
 from whose widow it was acquired by its present owner. 
 
 ^r-^ Jean Baptiste Camille Corot. Bom 1796. Died 
 
 ^ One of the Barbizon group of landscape painters. 
 
 ^ Started in life in a draper's shop. Pupil afterwards of 
 
 Michallon and Victor Bertin. Officer of the Legion of 
 Honour, 1867. Studied in Italy, then in Provence and 
 Normandy, and in his loved forest of Fontainebleau, in 
 which latter place, by incessant study, he learned to couple 
 breadth with careful though unobtrusive detail. His 
 practice was to paint in the open air in the summer at 
 effects seen as the day dawned or at times of sunset or 
 moonlight — working in his studio in the winter at the ideas 
 he thus gained. In his early years he had to contend with 
 poverty, but in after life wealth flowed freely in on him. 
 His originality was great ; he portrayed nature in a manner 
 replete with poetry and fancy, finding followers in such 
 painters of distinction as Troyon, Diaz, Daubigny, &c. 
 D. C. Thomson, in his work upon Corot,^ writes : " He 
 was the artist poet of the morning and of the evening, the 
 delightful painter of twilight, of rosy dawns, and dewy eve. 
 He was the man of all others who could paint the atmos- 
 phere, the aqueous vapours of the rivers and lakes, and 
 the mists of the valleys ; and who could invest every 
 landscape he produced with a romanticism and charm 
 which are thoroughly wonderful. He was the acknow- 
 ledged leader of a great school of landscape painting, and 
 for many years before his death he had a powerful 
 influence over numerous painters, who have become or 
 will yet become, famous." 
 
 * Barbizon School of Painting, Book I. Corot* 
 
GALLERY IL 
 
 75 
 
 107 THE THREE COWS. 
 
 Painted by j. B. COROT. 
 Canvas 8^ x 13^ inches. 
 Lent by Alexander young, esq. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter's life see No. io6 ). 
 
 108 A GROUP OF FIGURES. 
 
 Painted by N. v. diaz. 
 
 Canvas 9x6 inches. 
 
 Lent by Alexander young, esq. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter s life see No. 112 J. 
 
 109 THE FISHERMAN. 
 
 Painted by j. B. corot. 
 
 Canvas 8| x 14 inches. 
 
 Lent by Alexander young, esq. 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter'' s life see No. io6 ). 
 
 no L'ARBRE PENCHE (THE 
 BENT TREE). , . . 
 
 Painted by J. b. corox^--"^ 
 Canvas 16 x 22 inches. ^^^^-^--wf^/ 
 Lent by Alexander young, esq. ^ 
 
 ( For notice of the Painter's life see No. io6 ). 
 
76 
 
 GALLERY II. 
 
 Ill SENTIER DE ST. PRIVE. 
 
 Painted by h. harpignies. 
 Canvas 24 x 32 inches. 
 Lent by Alexander young, esq. 
 
 112 LE SOMMEIL DES NYMPHES. 
 
 Painted by N. v. diaz. 
 Canvas 23 x 15 inches. 
 ^^^_V^ Lent by j. inman, esq. 
 
 > NARCissi:-ViRGiLE Diaz de la Pena. Bom at Bordeaux, 
 1809. Died at Mentone, 1876. Landscape painter. 
 Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. In the earHest years 
 he studied nature in the woods. When fifteen he was 
 apprenticed to a manufacturer of porcelain as a shop boy, 
 but his evident capacity as an artist revealing itself, he 
 was promoted to his master's atelier, where he made the 
 acquaintance of Corbet, Raffet and Jules Dupre, but he 
 quarrelled with his master and left him. He entered then 
 upon a life of absolute poverty, but succeeded nevertheless 
 in increasing his knowledge of painting by his close study 
 of nature. Although his genre subjects have remarkable 
 attributes both in arrangement and colour, it is upon his 
 landscape art that his reputation rests ; depths and intri- 
 cacies of woodland and rugged forest growths. He was 
 for many years neglected, meeting indeed with but little 
 encouragement until towards the end of his life, when he 
 met with wide patronage. He was unfortunate early in 
 life in losing one of his legs, as the result of a bite from 
 an insect, and his death at the age of sixty-seven was due 
 to the bite of a viper. 
 
GALLERY IL 
 
 77 
 
 113 SHELLING PEAS. 
 
 Painted by edouard frere. 
 
 Panel 31 x 17 inches. 
 
 Lent by E. E. leggatt, esq. 
 
 Pierre Edouard Frere. Bom 1819. Died 1886. 
 Genre painter. Pupil of Paul Delaroche. Chevalier of 
 the Legion of Honour. He first exhibited at the Salon 
 in 1843. His works show much care and study. He 
 recorded scenes homely in character, in which childhood 
 was wondrously interpreted in a manner so full of the 
 charm of village life and the beauty of rustic expression 
 that it has been said of him in regard to his pupilage with 
 the great historical painter that " the stately swan had 
 hatched a wood bird," so simple of theme and yet so 
 accomplished in execution was his work. 
 
 114 GOING TO MARKET. 
 
 Painted by constant troyon. 
 Canvas 36 x 29 inches. 
 Lent by james donald, esq. 
 
 Constant Troyon. Born at Sevres, 18 10. Died at 
 Paris, 1865. Landscape and animal painter. He worked 
 in the companionship of Rousseau, Diaz and Jules Dupre. 
 He first exhibited at the Salon when he was twenty-three. 
 His subjects were taken invariably from the country in the 
 neighbourhood of Paris, very little other than French 
 scenery ever appearing in his works. 
 
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 GALLERY II. 
 
 115 GOING TO WORK. 
 
 Painted by j. F. millet. 
 Canvas 22 x 18 inches. 
 Lent by james donald, esq. 
 Etched by the Painter. 
 
 Jean FRANgois Millet. Born 1814. Died 1875. 
 Figure and landscape painter. His parents were of the 
 Norman peasantry and engaged in farming. Though his 
 general education was simple, his progress in art was such, 
 that at the age of twenty, the Municipality of Cherbourg 
 was prevailed upon to grant him a small pension to enable 
 him to pursue his studies in Paris. He became there the 
 pupil of Paul Delaroche, in whose atelier he had four 
 companions, Diaz, Rousseau, and Corot. His first work in 
 the Salon was a portrait, when he was twenty-six. He then 
 gained a living by painting signboards. It was not until 
 he was thirty-four that he discovered his true vocation, in 
 the adoption of subjects taken from French peasant life, 
 but his struggle for existence impeded his work. He and 
 his family were frequently in need of the barest necessaries 
 of life. He removed to Barbizon, a village in the 
 beautiful Fontainebleau country, and there he settled in a 
 peasant's cottage of three rooms, finding amid the scenery 
 and in the humble life so dear to him, no lack of subjects ; 
 but fine as his pictures were, they brought but small prices, 
 being at that time appreciated only by a very few. Not 
 until he was fifty-three did his means improve ; his genius 
 then brought him the Legion of Honour, and his work 
 became more largely sought after. He continued, how- 
 ever, his same simple rustic life to the end. His works 
 have realized enormous prices since his death ; the famous 
 " Angelus," painted in 1859, and owned now by M. Chau- 
 chard of Paris, being sold a few years ago for upwards of 
 ;^2o,ooo. So small were his life's gains that his widow and 
 family were left poor, and were granted from the State an 
 annual pension of 1,100 francs; the painter Corot, his old 
 friend and fellow pupil, supplementing this grant by a gift 
 of 15,000 francs. ^ 
 
GALLERY II. 
 
 79 
 
 i6 THE OPEN SEA. 
 
 Painted by jules dupre. 
 Canvas 15 x i8 inches. 
 Lent by j. s. forbes. 
 
 Jules Dupre. Born 181 2. Died 1889. Landscape 
 painter. Officer of the Legion of Honour. Studied as a 
 boy in the porcelain manufactory of his father. He then 
 essayed oil painting, and at the age of nineteen he first 
 exhibited at the Salon. In force and richness of colour 
 and in tenderness of expression, one of the greatest and 
 most individual of the French painters of landscape and 
 sea. 
 
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 GALLERY IL 
 
 117 PORTRAIT OF LOUIS THE 
 FOURTEENTH. 
 
 Painted by pierre mignard. 
 
 Canvas 28 x 23 inches. 
 
 Lent by E. A. leatham, esq. 
 
 LOUIS XIV, King of France. Born at St. Germains, 
 1638. Died at Versailles, 1715. He occupied the 
 Throne of France for seventy-seven years, and was one 
 of the handsomest men of his time. He is represented 
 in the painting in the costume of a Knight of Malta ; 
 face slightly turned to the right, white lace collar, red 
 scarf, steel breastplate, left arm bare from the elbow. 
 
 Pierre Mignard. Born 161 2. Died 1695. Portrait 
 and allegorical painter. Pupil of Jean Boucher, of 
 Bourges, and of Simon Vouet. He was summoned to 
 Fontainebleau in 1658 to paint a portrait of Louis the 
 Fourteenth, then in his twenty-first year, by which to 
 effect the King's betrothal to Maria Theresa, the Infanta 
 of Spain, a portrait which, it is said, the painter accom- 
 plished in three hours. He later became the bitter rival 
 of Charles Le Brun, whom he eventually succeeded as 
 Court Painter and Director of the Gobelins and of the 
 French Academy of Painting. 
 
GALLERY IL 
 
 8l 
 
 ii8 INTERIOR OF THE CAPUCHIN 
 CONVENT, ROME. 
 
 Painted by FRANgois M. granet. 
 
 Canvas 52 x 42 inches. 
 
 Lent by SIR Charles robinson. 
 
 Francois Marius Granet. Bom 1775. Died 1849. 
 Pupil of David. He was termed "The Monk," from 
 his gravity of character and simple dress of brown. One 
 of his pictures, " The Choir," in the Capuchin Monastery 
 of the Piazza Barberini at Rome, he repeated fifteen 
 times. One of these replicas is in the possession of the 
 Queen at Buckingham Palace. 
 
 119 THE FAIR WIDOW. 
 
 Painted by s. J. rochard. 
 Canvas 30 x 25 inches. 
 Lent by T. j. barratt, esq. 
 
 Simeon Jacques Rochard. Born 1788. Died 1850. 
 Pupil of Merimee and Isabey. He settled in England, 
 where he secured a large and fashionable connection ; and 
 exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy. Mr. Joseph 
 Grego, in a recent notice of this painter, has said — " The 
 fair widow is an example of a rare master, whose practice 
 was influenced by the Schools of Greuze and Hoppner. 
 The few examples he executed of this order were repro- 
 duced in Keepsakes and Books of Beauty, in one of 
 which ornate annuals a version of 'The Fair Widow' was 
 engraved." 
 
GALLERY IL 
 
 PORTRAIT OF GUIZOT, 
 
 the French Statesman and Historian, 
 
 born 1787, died 1873. 
 
 Painted by L. mottez. 
 Canvas 45 x 25 inches. 
 
 Lent by admiral sir Leopold heath, k.c.b. 
 Painted 1849. 
 
 Victor Louis Mottez. Bom 1809. Died 
 History and portrait painter. Pupil of Ingres and Picot. 
 
GALLERY III. 
 
GALLERY IIL 
 
 121 NEWS FROM THE SOUDAN. 
 
 Painted by L. deutsch. 
 Canvas 13 x 18 inches. 
 Lent by h. j. turner, esq. 
 
 L. Deutsch. Genre painter, Orientalist — living. 
 
 122 THE SICK CHILD. 
 
 Painted by henriette brown. 
 Canvas 14 x 11 inches. 
 Lent by MRS. c. e. lees. 
 
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 GALLERY III. 
 
 123 BAIN MAURE (Moorish Bath), 
 
 Painted by J. L. gerome, h.r.a. 
 Canvas 20^ x 15J inches. 
 Lent by H. J. turner, esq. 
 Etched by rajon. 
 
 J UDE figure of a girl seated near a bath let into the 
 
 1 1 floor of a lofty circular apartment. A Nubian 
 slave, habited from the waist in rich dark clothes, is 
 standing by, holding a heavy brazen vessel of water. By 
 the door a narghile pipe is seen, and on the stonework, 
 the edge of which the girl's raised hand is touching, 
 richly coloured drapery is arranged. 
 
 Painted in London, in 1870, for the present owner, in 
 the time of the Paris Commune. Finished in Paris, 
 as the painter was unable to obtain a good Nubian 
 model in London. 
 
 Exhibited at the Vienna Exhibition, 1873. 
 Philadelphia Exhibition, 1876. 
 
GALLERY IIL 87 
 
 124 A GENERAL OF THE 
 DIRECTORY. 
 
 Painted by c. delort. 
 Panel 13 x 9 inches. 
 Lent by H. j. turner, esq. 
 
 Charles Edouard Delort. Genre painter — living. 
 Pupil of Gleyre and Gerome. 
 
 125 THE RETURN TO THE MILL. 
 
 Painted by ROSA bonheur. 
 Canvas lo^ x 14 inches. 
 Lent by MRS. George holt. 
 
 ( For nolicc of the Painter'' s life see No. 146. ) 
 
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 GALLERY III. 
 
 126 A NOBLE VENETIAN. 
 
 Painted by j. L. meissonier. 
 
 Panel 14^ x 10^ inches. 
 
 Lent by monsieur e. gambart, of Nice. 
 
 Etched by Leopold flameng. 
 
 A PORTRAIT of the painter in red velvet robe. He 
 sits in a high-backed chair studded with brass 
 nails, and reads gi*avely from a book he holds in both 
 hands. To his left is a table with books, and a dog lies 
 on the floor to his right. 
 
 Painted 1866, 
 
 127 THE BATHER. 
 
 Painted by H. fantin-latour. 
 
 Canvas 14 x 12 inches. 
 
 Lent by c. J. galloway, esq. 
 
 Henri Fantin-Latour. Genre and portrait painter — 
 living. Pupil of Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Chevalier of the 
 Legion of Honour, 1879. 
 
GALLERY IIL 
 
 89 
 
 128 
 
 A CUP OF TEA. 
 
 Painted by emile plassan. 
 
 Panel 10 x 7 inches. 
 
 Lent by the HON. vicary gibbs, m.p. 
 
 Antoine ^^mile Plassan. Genre painter. Student of 
 Meissonier. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. 
 
 129 PORTRAIT OF MADAME 
 GAUTREAU. 
 
 130 A SAINT IN THE DESERT. 
 
 Painted by GUST AVE moreau. 
 Canvas 8^ x 5 inches. 
 
 Lent by monsieur bessonneau, of Angers. 
 
 GusTAVE Moreau. Born 1815. Died 1898. Genre 
 painter. Pupil of Picot. Chevalier of the Legion of 
 Honour, 1875. 
 
 Painted by henriette brown. 
 Canvas 12 x 12^ inches. 
 
 Lent by the RT. HON. H. d. davies, m.p., lord 
 mayor. 
 
 HENPaETTE Brown (Madame de Saux). Genre painter 
 — living. Pupil of Chaplin. 
 
 Painted by GUSTAVE courtois. 
 Canvas 41 x 23 inches. 
 Lent by the Artist. 
 
 131 
 
 THE SCHOOL. 
 
GALLERY III. 
 
 2 CAUSERIE. 
 
 Painted by j. L. meissonier. 
 
 Panel 4i x 3 inches. 
 
 Lent by JOHN M. keiller, esq. 
 
 TWO gentlemen standing and conversing in a lofty 
 room. They are both taking snutf ; one, in a red 
 coat, is leaning against a table. A ray of sunlight falls 
 on a panel to the right. 
 
 In the Secretan Collection until 1889. 
 
 3 HE DINES AT THE CHATEAU. 
 
 Painted by v. chevilliard. 
 Canvas 9^ x 7^ inches. 
 Lent by Messrs. obach & co. 
 Exhibited at the Paris Salon, 1895. 
 
 Vincent Chevilliard. Genre painter — living. Pupil 
 of Picot and later of Cabanel. His early pictures were 
 landscapes or antique figures richly draped, and his pleasant 
 phase in which he introduces the dignitaries of the Church 
 and by which he is more widely known was only incidentally 
 adopted. He was entertaining an artist who had brought 
 with him a priest's costume, and when arrayed in it one 
 day Chevilliard begged him for a sitting. The picture he 
 painted he entitled " An Easy Conscience," and the 
 Prince of Wales purchased it. Commissions then came 
 quickly to the painter, but no one would have anything 
 but priests, and he thus became a painter of the clergy, 
 investing his subjects with a touch of humour or intro- 
 ducing some interesting suggestive trifle, as in the present 
 example. 
 
GALLERY III. 
 
 91 
 
 134 A GENTLEMAN OF THE TIME 
 OF LOUIS XIII. 
 
 Painted by j. L. meissonier. 
 Panel 10 x 7 inches. 
 
 Lent by sir james joicey, bart., m.p. 
 
 FULL length figure leaning against a stone mantel ; 
 his hands are clasped. White and scarlet costume ; 
 background of tapestry ; chair to left of the picture. 
 
 Painted 1890. 
 
 f For notice of the Painter's life see No. 33^. 
 
 135 PORTRAIT OF MISS ALICE 
 SCHLESINGER 
 
 (now MRS. FRED. LIEBREICH.) 
 
 By G. RICARD. 
 
 Canvas 19 x 15 inches. 
 Lent by miss schlesinger. 
 Painted 1870. 
 
 GusTAVE RiCARD. Born 1824. Died 1873. Portrait 
 painter. Pupil of Cogniet. His portraits were much 
 sought, and he amassed considerable fortune. In 1863, 
 the Legion of Honour was offered to him, but he replied, 
 '* It is too late " and could not be prevailed upon to 
 change his decision. 
 
92 GALLERY IIL 
 
 136 THE CHATEAU. 
 
 Painted by armand charnay. 
 
 Canvas 12 x 15^ inches. 
 
 Lent by J. P. heseltine, esq. 
 
 Armand Charnay. Landscape Painter — living. Pupil 
 of Feyen-Perrin and Pils. 
 
 137 THE READER. 
 
 Painted by victor chavet. 
 
 Panel 8J x 6^ inches. 
 
 Lent by c. wentworth wass, esq. 
 
 Exhibited at the Paris Exhibition, 1855. 
 
 Victor Chavet, Genre painter — living. Pupil of Pierre 
 Revoil and C. Roquephan. Chevalier of the Legion of 
 Honour, 1859. 
 
GALLERY III. 
 
 93 
 
 8 THE FLORENTINE POET. 
 
 Painted by Alexandre cabanel. 
 
 Canvas 22 J x 38^ inches. 
 
 Lent by monsieur bessonneau, of Angers. 
 
 pHE poet, seated on a stone bench, is reciting love 
 
 1 sonnets, which two lovers in front follow with an 
 eager attention that greatly animates the beauty of the 
 lady. Two youths are also listening, and a serene 
 pleasure is depicted on the countenances of all. 
 
 Engraved by A. j. huot. 
 
 A larger version of this work — exhibited in the Salon in 
 186 1 — is in the possession of Mr. J. H. Warren, Hoosic 
 Falls, U.S.A. 
 
 Alexandre Cabanel. Bom 1823. Died 1889. His- 
 tory and portrait painter. Pupil of Picot. Took the 
 Prix de Rome, 1845. Member of the Institute of France, 
 1863. Commander of the Legion of Honour, 1884. 
 One of his greatest works in its masterly drawing, beauty 
 of line and delicate transparency of colour, is "The Birth 
 of Venus," painted in 1863, and now in the Luxembourg, 
 and of which three smaller replicas exist, all of them in 
 the United States. 
 
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 GALLERY III. 
 
 139 THE FIRST KISS. 
 
 Painted by w. A. bouguereau. 
 Canvas 47 x 29 inches. 
 
 Lent by the RT. HON. H. D. davies, m.p., lord 
 
 MAYOR. 
 
 William Adolphe Bouguereau. Figure painter — living. 
 Pupil of Picot, and of L'Ecole des Beaux Arts. Took the 
 Prix de Rome at the age of twenty-five. Commander of 
 the Legion of Honour. Member of the Institute of 
 France. 
 
 140 A LION PURSUING 
 ANTELOPES. 
 
 Painted J. L. gerome. 
 Canvas 26 x 47 inches. 
 Lent by the Artist. 
 
GALLERY IIL 
 
 95 
 
 I THE FAINTING OF THE 
 VIRGIN. 
 
 Painted by PAUL delaroche. 
 Canvas ii x 21 inches. 
 
 Lent by MONS. Philippe delaroche-vernet. 
 
 THE picture shows the Mother of our Lord in the 
 house of the Apostle John, exhausted with the 
 prolonged hours of anguish on the day of the Crucifixion. 
 Tending her are the other holy women. 
 
 Paul Delaroche. Bom 1797. Died 1856. He studied 
 landscape painting with Watelet, and afterwards entered the 
 studio of Gros, and devoted himself to history. He also 
 expended four entire years of his early life in studying the 
 human figure. He made rapid progress, and in 1819 ex- 
 hibited his first picture. In 1824 he produced three works, 
 for which he obtained a gold medal, and in 1827 appeared 
 " The Capture of the Trocadero," a work which procured 
 him the distinction of the cross of the Legion of Honour. 
 In 1830 he painted " The Princes in the Tower," which has 
 been so often engraved, and which induced M. Delavigne 
 to write his tragedy on the same subject. In 1833 he was 
 appointed professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and 
 married in 1835, at Rome, the only daughter of Horace 
 Vernet, who was then director of the French Academy in 
 that city. In 1837 the adornment of the Amphitheatre of 
 the Ecole des Beaux- Arts was entrusted to him, and in this 
 work he displayed great originality of conception, obtaining 
 an imposing result by very simple means, completing it in 
 1 84 1. He travelled in the East, in failing health, after his 
 wife's death in 1843, impelled by religious reflection, 
 he there painted many sacred subjects, several of which, 
 including the present one, were not finished until later in 
 life. 
 
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 GALLERY III. 
 
 142 AN AMATEUR. 
 
 Painted by L. deutsch. 
 Panel 23 x 16 inches. 
 Lent by h. j. turner, esq. 
 
 143 " L'IMMENSITE." 
 
 Painted by gust AVE courbet. 
 
 Canvas 23 x 31 inches. 
 
 Lent by constantine a. ionides, esq. 
 
 GusTAVE Courbet. Born 1819. Died 1878. Genre, 
 landscape and portrait painter. Began life by studying 
 law, but relinquished it at the age of twenty, and studied 
 art in the school of David D'Angers. He was addicted 
 early to the painting of caricatures, especially of priests, 
 and did not draw much attention to his capacity for land- 
 scape until he was about thirty. He was considered to 
 be the most positive of the naturalists before the 
 impressionists appeared. Courbet was a Communist, 
 and suffered six months' imprisonment as the chief 
 instigator of the downfall of the Vendome Column, at 
 the time of the Paris Commune, and after his release he 
 retired to Switzerland. 
 
GALLERY IIL 
 
 97 
 
 144 EVENTIDE. 
 
 Painted by madame cazin. 
 
 Canvas 10 x 15 inches. 
 
 Lent by E. E. leggatt, esq. 
 
 145 THE POET WITH THE 
 MANDOLINE. 
 
 Painted by carolus duran. 
 
 Canvas 36 x 29 inches. 
 
 Lent by the Artist. 
 
 Exhibited at the Paris Salon, 1894. 
 
 Charles Auguste Emile Durand, called "Carolus 
 Duran." Genre and portrait painter — living. Pupil of 
 Francois Souchon. Studied in Italy and Spain. Com- 
 mander of the Legion of Honour, 1878. His portraits of 
 women have gained him great fame; the spontaneity of 
 life is in them. Art with him is an interpretation of nature, 
 not merely an imitation of it, calling strongly into action 
 the individuality of the painter. His principles and work 
 attract a large number of students to his studio in 
 Paris, especially from England and America. Among 
 his pupils was Mr. J. S. Sargent, R.A. Of his decorative 
 work, the beautiful Gloria of Marie de Medici on the 
 ceiling of the Luxembourg may be regarded as his best. 
 
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 GALLERY III. 
 
 146 THE CHALK WAGGONER. 
 
 Painted by ROSA bonheur. 
 Canvas 25 x 32 inches. 
 
 Lent by the RT. HON. H. D. davies, m.p., lord 
 
 MAYOR. 
 
 Engraved by charles g. lewis. 
 
 Marie Rosa Bonheur, Animal painter — living, now 
 seventy-six years of age. Daughter and pupil of Raymond 
 Bonheur. Studied the old masters in the Louvre and 
 then sketched and studied in the neighbourhood of Paris. 
 Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, 1865. She made her 
 debut at the Salon in 1841, at the age of nineteen. Her 
 large picture of the " Horse Fair," 94 x 197 in., is now in 
 the Metropolitan Museum of New York; the smaller 
 version of the subject, 47 x 98 in., was bequeathed to the 
 nation in 1859, and is now in the National Gallery of 
 British Art. During the Siege of Paris in the Franco- 
 Prussian War, the Princess Royal of Prussia (now the 
 Empress Frederick) gave the strictest orders that the 
 house and studio of Rosa Bonheur, at Fontainebleau, 
 should not be disturbed in any way, and these orders 
 were strictly carried out. 
 
GALLERY III. 
 
 99 
 
 147 THE APE AND THE 
 TORTOISE. 
 
 Painted by A. decamps. 
 Canvas 13! x 9 J inches. 
 Lent by mons. durand ruel. 
 
 Alexander Gabriel Decamps. Born 1803. Died 1863. 
 History, landscape, and genre painter. Pupil of Abel de 
 Pujol, David, and Ingres. Some of his finest works, such 
 as the " Turkish Patrol in Smyrna," are in the Wallace 
 Collection, recently bequeathed by Lady Wallace to the 
 nation. 
 
 148 CHILD WITH A KITTEN. 
 
 Painted by ary scheffer. 
 
 Canvas 16 x 13 inches. 
 
 Lent by e. a. leatham, esq. 
 
 Ary Scheffer. Born 1795. Died 1858. Genre painter. 
 Pupil of Guerin. Small genre pictures occupied him in 
 his early career, but later he drew his subjects from the 
 great poets, Dante, Schiller, Goethe and Byron. Religious 
 themes were latterly pursued by him, and many of his 
 works in this direction, such for example as " Christ the 
 Consoler, made a deep impression. A great number of 
 his works are engraved. 
 
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100 
 
 GALLERY III. 
 
 149 CUPID AND PSYCHE. 
 
 Painted by Charles landelle. 
 Canvas 20 X 12 inches. 
 Lent by E. a. leatham, esq. 
 
 Charles Landelle, genre and portrait painter — living. 
 Pupil of Paul Delaroche and Ary Scheffer ; Chevalier of 
 the Legion of Honour. He has executed much decorative 
 work in the public buildings in Paris, one of the salons in 
 the Palace Elysee containing six panels by him. 
 
 150 A CUP OF TEA. 
 
 Painted by auguste renoir. 
 
 Canvas 40 x 32 inches. 
 
 Lent by MONS. durand ruel. 
 
 Auguste Renoir. Genre, portrait, and landscape 
 painter — living. Has identified himself with the Impres- 
 sionist School. 
 
GALLERY IIL 
 
 lOI 
 
 151 THE BEHEADING OF ST. JOHN 
 THE BAPTIST. 
 
 Painted by puvis de chavannes. 
 Canvas 49 x 65 inches. 
 Lent by mons. durand ruel. 
 Painted 1869. 
 
 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. History and genre 
 painter — living. Pupil of Henri Scheffer, and of Couture. 
 Commander of the Legion of Honour, 1877. Leaving the 
 beaten track he has sought to revive the monumental 
 painting of the Renaissance. " His works, though wanting 
 in organic cohesion, precise drawing, energetic modelling 
 and colour, are redeemed by a certain grandeur, clearness 
 of thought, and novelty of invention." 
 
 152 THE BALLET SCENE FROM 
 MEYERBEER'S OPERA OF 
 ROBERTO XL DIAVOLO. 
 
 Painted by e. degas. 
 Canvas 29 x 31 inches. 
 Lent by constantine a. ionides, esq. 
 
102 
 
 GALLERY III. 
 
 153 BOULEVARD DES ITALIENS. 
 
 Painted by c. pissarro. 
 
 Canvas 29 x 36 inches. 
 
 Lent by mons. durand ruel. 
 
 154 POPLARS AT GIVERNY. 
 
 Painted by claude monet. 
 
 Canvas 40 x 26 inches. 
 
 Lent by mons. durand ruel. 
 
 Claude Monet. Landscape painter — living. One of 
 the leaders of the Impressionist School. 
 
MEDALS, 
 OBJECTS OF ART, ETC. 
 
nDe&al6, ©bjecte of Hit, etc 
 
 155 By OSCAR ROTY, Medallist, Member of the Academy des Beaux Arts 
 and of the Institute of France. Officer of the Legion of Honor — 
 
 A series of MEDALS, obverse and reverse, cast and struck ; and a 
 series of PLAQUES. 
 
 156 By AUGUSTE PATEY— 
 
 A Case containing 27 MEDALS and PLAQUES. 
 
 157 By EMILE GALLE, Officer of the Legion of Honor— • 
 
 A set of GLASS VASES, with designs in colour. 
 
 158 By ADRIEN DALPEYRAT— 
 
 ETRUSCAN VASE, with handle. 
 
 159 By AUGUSTIN DELAHERCHE, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor- 
 
 Four COLOURED VASES of fired sandstone. 
 
 160 By FERNAND THESMAR, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor— 
 
 A TRANSPARENT ENAMELLED CUP, bordered with gold. 
 A GOBLET, enamelled, bordered with gold. 
 
 161 By A. BIGOT— 
 
 A GREEN VASE, shape of a pear. 
 A JUG, with handle. 
 
 A SMALL VASE, with stripes and handle. 
 
 A FOUNTAIN, sandstone and bronze (de Manneville. 
 
 162 EXAMPLES IN PEWTER by the following artists :— 
 
 MM. LEDRU. MM. R^ICIPON. 
 
 RICHER. LEVILLAIN. 
 VETAL CORNU. COUPRI. 
 Exhibited by MM. SUSSE FRERES. 
 
3nbey of Contributore^ 
 
 ALBANY, H.R.H. THE DUCHESS 
 
 OF, 12 
 ALDENHAM, LORD, 66 
 AVICE, MONS., 2 
 
 BALLI, JOHN, ESQ., 33 
 BARRATT, T. J., ESQ., II9 
 BELL, SIR J., BART., 88 
 BELLY, MADAME LEON, 95 
 BESSONNEAU, MONS., 1 6, 39, I30, 
 
 138 
 
 BISCHOFFSHEIM, H. L., ESQ., 77 
 BOUCHARD, MONS. PAUL, 42 
 BOUSSOD, VALADON & CO., 24 
 BURNAND, MONS. E., 27 
 BURTON, LORD, 83 
 BUTE, MARQUESS OF, K.T., 50 
 
 CAROLUS DURAN, I45 
 CASA-MIRANDA, COMTESSE DE, 37 
 COMBIER, MONS, 1 7 
 COOK, SIR F., BART., 52, 53, 68 
 COURTOIS, MONS. G., 35, 1 29 
 
 DAVIES, RT. HON. H. D., M.P. ; 
 
 LORD MAYOR, 28, 90, 92, 94, 
 
 131, 139, 146 
 DAY, HON. SIR J. C, I, 102 
 DELAROCHE-VERNET, MONS. P., 
 
 141 
 
 DONALD, J. ESQ., 96, II4, II5 
 DUBUFE, G., ESQ., 4I 
 DURAND RUEL, ESQ., 7, II, 32, 89, 
 147, 150, 151, 153, 154 
 
 EDWARDS, MRS., 45a 
 ENGEL-GROS, MONS., 29 
 
 FORBES, J. S., ESQ., 98, 100, IO3, 
 116 
 
 GALLOWAY, C. J., ESQ., 79, 1 27 
 GAMBART, MONS. E., 1 8, 1 26 
 GASSIOT, C, ESQ., 43, 45 
 GEROME, MONS. J. L., I4O 
 GIBBS, HON. VICARY, M.P., 1 28 
 GUASCO, MONS. C, 46 
 
 HEATH, ADMIRAL SIR LEOPOLD, 
 
 K.C.B., 120 
 HENDERSON, A., ESQ., M.P., 3 
 HERRMANN, MONS., 2$ 
 HESELTINE, J. P., ESQ., 1 36 
 HOLT, MRS. G., 1 25 
 HUBBACK, E. F., ESQ., 1 9 
 
 INMAN, J., ESQ., 112 
 lONIDES, C. A., ESQ., I43, 1 52 
 IVEAGH, LORD, K.P., 6 
 
INDEX OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 107 
 
 JOICEY, SIR J., BART., M.P., I34 
 
 KEARLEY, H. E., ESQ., M.P., 4O 
 KEILLER, J. M., ESQ., 1 32 
 
 LAVALETTE, MARQUISE DE, 7I, 
 
 73, 75, 78, 86 
 
 LEATHAM, E. A., ESQ., 70, II 7, 
 
 148, 149 
 LEES, MRS. C. E., 122 
 LEGGATT, E. E., ESQ., 97, 1 01, 
 
 113, 
 
 LHERMITTE, MONS. L. A., 34 
 
 MAIGNAN, MONS. A., 3 1 
 MCCULLOCH, G., ESQ,, 8, 9, 22, 44 
 MCCULLOCH, MRS., I4 
 MILLS, OGDEN, ESQ., 5 
 MORGAN, J. PIERPONT, ESQ., 55, 
 
 63, 80 
 MORLON, MONS. A., 1 5 
 MORRISON, C, ESQ., 5 1, 67 
 
 NATHAN, MRS., 4 
 
 OBACH & CO., MESSRS., I33 
 
 PERRAULT, MONS. L., 30 
 PIRBRIGHT, RT. HON. LORD, P.C., 
 
 49, 56, 57, 61, 64, 65, 76 
 
 ROBINSON, SIR J. C, I18 
 ROTHSCHILD, A. C. DE, ESQ., 74, 
 
 81,85 
 ROYBET, MONS. P., 21 
 
 SCHLESINGER, MISS, 1 35 
 SEDELMEYER, MONS. C, 23, 26, 
 72, 87 
 
 STIRBEY, PRINCE GEORGES, 47 
 STRATHCONA AND MOUNT ROYAL, 
 
 LORD, G.C.M.G., 1 3, 20 
 SUSSE FR^RES, MM., 1 62 
 SUTHERLAND, DUKE OF, 48 
 
 TURNER, H. J., ESQ., 36, 121, I23, 
 124, 142 
 
 VAILE, R., ESQ., 82, 99 
 
 WANTAGE, LORD, V.C., K.C.B., 54, 
 
 84 
 
 WARREN, MRS. S. D., 38 
 WASS, C. W., ESQ., 137 
 WERNHER, J., ESQ., 59 
 WERTHEIMER, A., ESQ., 58, 62, 69 
 WILSON, H. M., ESQ., lO 
 WOODIWISS, G., ESQ., J.P., 43a 
 
 YARBOROUGH, COUNTESS OF, 60 
 YOUNG, A., ESQ., 9I, 93, I04, IO5, 
 106, 107, 108, 109, no, III 
 
Jn&ey of Hrtiate. 
 
 ADAN, E., 19 
 
 BASTIEN-LEPAGE, J., 8, 100 
 BELLY, L., 95 
 
 BENJAMIN-CONSTANT, J. J., 37 
 
 BERAUD, J., 17 
 
 BIDAU, E., 14 
 
 BIGOT, A., 161 
 
 BILLET, P., 46 
 
 BINET, v., 9 
 
 BISSON, E., 25 
 
 BONHEUR, ROSA, 6, 22, I25, I46 
 BOUCHARD, P., 42 
 BOUCHER, F., 61, 69, 74, 81, 85 
 BOUGUEREAU, W. A., 28, 44, 1 39 
 BRETON, J., 20 
 
 BROWN, HENRIETTE, 122, I3I 
 BROWN, J. LEWIS, 32 
 BURNAND, E., 27 
 
 CABANEL, A., 1 38 
 CAROLUS-DURAN, 1 45 
 CAZIN, J. C, 7, 144 
 CHARDIN, J. B., 52, 68 
 CHARNAY, A., 1 36 
 CHAVET, v., 131 
 CHEVILLIARD, V., 1 33 
 COMERRE, L., 47 
 CORMON, P., 2 
 
 CORNU, v., 162 
 
 COROT, J. B., 106, 107, 109, 1 10 
 COUPRI, — , 162 
 COURBET, G., 143 
 COURTOIS, G., 35, 129 
 
 DAGNAN BOUVERET, P. A., 29 
 DALPEYRAT, A., 1 58 
 DAUBIGNY, C. F., 98, I02, IO4 
 DECAMPS, A. G., I47 
 DEGAS, E., 152 
 DELAHERCHE, A., I 59 
 DELAROCHE, P., I4I 
 DELORT, C. E., 1 24 
 DEMONT, A. L., 26 
 DETAILLE, E., 24 
 DEUTSCH, L., 121, 142 
 DIAZ, N. v., 103, 105, 108, 112 
 DROUAIS, F. H., 60 
 DUBUFE, G., 41 
 DUPRE, JULES, 116 
 DUPRE, JULIEN, 9 1 
 
 FANTIN-LATOUR, H., 43a, 45a, 
 127 
 
 FRAGONARD, J. H., 49, 65 
 FRERE, E., 18, 113 
 
 GALLE, E., J 57 
 
 GEROME J. L., 3, 5, 36, 38, 123, 
 140 
 
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 INDEX OF ARTISTS. 
 
 GRANET, F. M., Il8 
 GREUZE, J. B., 54, 56, 64, 70, 76, 
 79 
 
 GUIARD, MDME., 73 
 
 HARPIGNIES, H., I, III 
 HEILBUTH, F., 23 
 HENNER, J. J., 13 
 
 ISABEY, E., 88, 99 
 
 JACQUE, C, 90, 94 
 JALABERT, C. F., 12 
 
 LANCRET, N., 55, 63, 78, 84, 86 
 
 LANDELLE, C, 1 49 
 
 LANGEE, G., FILS, 4 
 
 LARGILLIERE, N., 72 
 
 LAURENS, J. P., 39 
 
 LE BRUN, MDME. V., 57 80 
 
 LE DOUX, MDLLE., 62 
 
 LEDRU, — ,162 
 
 LE NAIN, A. & L., 48, 66 
 
 LEVILLAIN, — , 162 
 
 LHERMITTE, L. A., 34 
 
 MAIGNAN, A., 31 
 
 MEISSONIER, J. L., 33, 1 26, 1 32, 
 
 MEUNIER, J. A., 10 
 MICHEL, G., 97 
 MIGNARD, P., 117 
 MILLET, J. F., 93, 115 
 MONCHABLON, J., 40 
 MOREAU, G., 130 
 MORLON, A., 15 
 
 MOTTEZ, L., 120 
 MONET, C, II, 154 
 NATTIER, J. M., 77, 83 
 
 PATER, J. B., 75 
 
 PATEY, A., 156 
 
 PERRAULT, L., 30 
 
 PISSARRO, C, 153 
 
 PLASSAN, E., 128 
 
 PUVIS DE CHAVANNES, 1 5 1 
 
 RAFFET, D., lOI 
 RECIPON, — , 162 
 RENOIR, A., 150 
 RICARD, G. 135 
 RICHER, — ,162 
 ROCHARD, S. J., 119 
 ROTY, O., 155 
 ROUSSEAU, T., 96 
 ROYBET, F., 16, 21 
 
 SCHEFFER, ARY, I48 
 
 TASSAERT, O., 89 
 THESMAR, F., 160 
 TISSOT, J., 43, 45 
 TOURNIERES, R., 50 
 TRINQUESSE, L. R., 82 
 TROYON, C, 114 
 
 VAN LOO, C, 87 
 VAN MARCKE, E., 92 
 
 WATTEAU, A. 5 1, 53)158/59, 
 
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