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BASTIANINO his early education. He failed to rise to the level of Carpaccio, and never attained superior distinction, yet he held an honour- able position in his guild in Venice. Among his works are : Madonna with Saints and Donor in the lunette of a side door of the S. M e Donate, Murauo, signed and dated 1484 ; Coronation of the Virgin, Lochis Carrara Gallery, Bergamo ; Entombment, S. Antonio, Venice ; the Gift of the Relic and the Miracle of the Holy Cross, Venice Academy ; Annunciation, Correr Museum, Venice ; Glorification of St. Veneranda, Vienna Academy. C. & C., N. Italy, i. 215 ; Ch. Blanc, Eeole venitieune ; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., vi. 86, 97, 98 ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 113. BASTIANINO, IL. See Filippl, Sebasti- ano. BASTIEN-LEPAGE, JULES, born at Damvillers, Meuse, Nov. 1, 1848, died in Paris, Dec. 10, 1884. History and portrait painter, pupil of Caba- nel. Medals : 3d class, 1874 ; 2d class, 1875 ; 3d class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1879. Works : Song of Spring, Portrait of my Grandfather (1874); Communicant (1875); Adoration of Shepherds, Portrait of M. Wallon (1876) ; Portrait of my Parents, do. of Andr6 Theuriet (1877) ; Hay Harvest (1878) ; Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt (1879) ; Potato Harvest (1879) ; Joan of Arc, Erwin Davis, New York; Village Love, Ripe Grain, October (1883) ; The Forge (1884), Albert Wolff. Moutrosier, Artistes modernes, iii. ; Meyer, Kttnst. Lex., iii. 116 ; Mttller, 29 ; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 235. BATES, DEWEY, born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1851. Genre and portrait painter ; studied at Royal Academy, Antwerp, and at licole des Beaux Arts, Paris, under Ger6me. Studio in Philadelphia ; was in London in [ 1883. Works : Little Jannetje, Dutch Com- fort (1875). BATH, AFTER THE, Jean Loon Gerdme, j Wm. Astor, New York ; canvas, H. 3 ft. x 2 ft. A female figure, nude, sitting, back to the spectator, at the edge of the bath, in the water of which her form is reflected, with a narghileh beside her ; another figure, partly draped, sitting at left, and two others in i background. Photogravure in Art Treas- ures of America, ii. 71. BATH, YOUNG ROMAN'S, Charles Gleyre, Charles S. Smith, New York ; canvas, H 3 f t. x 2 ft. A beautiful female slave, partly draped, lifts a babe into an alabaster font, in a Roman impluvium, on the opposite side of which, nearly in profile, stands a nude maiden, resting her hands on the rim of the basin, and contemplating the young Roman with admiration. Photogravure in Art Treasures of America, ii. 88. BATHSHEBA AT THE BATH, Francia Bigio, Dresden Gallery ; wood, H. 2 ft. 8 in. x 5 ft. 7 in. ; signed, dated 1523. David sees Bathsheba in the bath, while Uriah sleeps on the balcony of his house ; on the other side, the sending of Uriah with the letter. Cat. Dresden Gal. Subject treated also by Rembrandt, Steeugracht Collection, Hague ; Cornells van Haarlem, Berlin Museum ; Jan Frans van Douven, Cassel Gallery ; Bernardo Strozzi, Dresden Gallery ; Carlo Maratti, Leichtenstein Gallery, Vienna. BATTAGLIA, DIONISIO, flourished in Verona about 1547. Probably pupil of Francesco Torbido, to whose style his pict- ures bear so close a resemblance that they have often been mistaken for them. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 123 ; Bernasconi, Studj., 301. BATTEM, GERARD VAN, second half of 17th century. Dutch school ; landscape painter ; apparently took Ph. Wouwerman for his model ; said to have lived at Rotter- dam. Works : Hilly Landscape with Fig- ures, Meiningen Gallery ; do., Schleissheim Gallery. Meyer, KUnst Lex., iii. 125. 109