COUftT series of five pictures, representing a na- tion's rise, progress, decline, fall, and deso- lation. Painted in 1832-4 for Lumau Reed, New York. 1. (H. 3 ft. 3 in. x 5 ft. 1 in.) Savage State or Commencement of Empire ; 2. (H. 3 ft. 3 in. x5 ft. 2 in.) Arcadian or Pastoral State ; 3. (H. 4 ft. 2 in. x 6 ft. 3 in.) Consummation of Empire ; 4. (H. 3 ft. 2 in. X 5 ft. 2 in.) Destruction ; 5. (H. 3 ft. 3 in. x5 ft. 1 in.) Desolation. Of this picture Frederic E. Church writes : "If I were per- mitted to select three from among all the landscapes I have ever seen, I should cer- tainly choose for one of them ' Desolation,' the last of the five pictures of the ' Course of Empire.'" COURT-JESTERS IN ANTECHAMBER, Eduardo Zamaco'is, Mrs. A. T. Stewart, New York ; canvas. A group of hunchbacked jesters amusing themselves in the antecham- ber of a prince. The painter's sarcastic hu- mour finds vent in making these unfortunates portraits of himself and of his artist friends. The one watching the stand of paroquets is Jules Worms, and the one throwing dice is Berne-Bellecour ; he himself is represented with ass's ears, and his brother is the page. Art Treas. of Amer., i. 37. COURT, JOSEPH DfiSIRti, born at Rou- en, Sept. 11, 1798, died there, Jan. 23, 1865. Genre painter, pupil of Gros ; won the grand prix de Rome in 1821. Medals : 1st class, 1831 ; 2d class, 1855 ; L. of Honour, 1838. Works : Samson delivered to the Philistines (1821) ; Deluge, Faun in a Bath dragging in a Girl, Death of Caesar (1827), Louvre ; St. Peter sent by the Romans to Jerusalem (1836) ; Due d' Orleans as Lieut. General i (183G), Versailles ; Return of St. Louis (1841); j King giving Colours to the National Guard, Aug. 29, 1830, Versailles ; Flight of Gov- ernor of Constantine (1839) ; Due d' Or- leans laying the first Stone of the Agen Canal (1844). Among his many portraits COURTAT, LOUIS, born in Paris ; con- temporary. History painter, pupil of Ca- banel. Medals : 3d class, 1873 and 1874 ; 1st class, 1875. - L . Coutta I - Works : Siesta (1873) ; St. Se- bastian (1874) ; Leda (1875), Luxembourg Museum ; Hagar and Ishmael (1877) ; Spring-Time (1878) ; Eveandher Children (1879); Nymph (1880); Little Orange Girl (1881) ; Odalisque (1882) ; Venus Awakened (1884) ; Bathers (1885). COURTENS, FRANZ, born at Termonde, Belgium ; contemporary. Landscape and genre painter. Medal : 3d class, 1884. Works : Morning in the Campine (1881) ; Departure for Fishing, Dutch Village (1882); In the Cabbage Fields, Salt Meadows (1883). COURTOIS, GUSTAVE, born at Pusey (Haute-Saone) in 1852. History and portrait painter, pupil of Gcrome. Medals : 3d class, 1878 ; 2d class, 1880 ; Munich, 1883. Works : Orpheus, Death of Archimedes (187G) ; Narcissus (1877), Luxembourg Mu- seum ; Lais in Hell (1878) ; Dante and Vir- gil in Hell (1880) ; Portraits (1881) ; Baya- 1883 dere (1882); Fantasy (1883); Burial of Atala (1884). Meyer, Conv. Lex., xxi. 157. COURTOIS, JACQUES, named Le Bour- guignon (H Bor- gognone); in Italy called also Jacopo Cortese ; born at St. Hippolyte, Franche - Comte, in 1621, died in Rome, Nov. 14, 1676. French school ; battle painter, pupil of his father, Jean, and of are those of Mme. Adelaide and the Prince Cerquozzi. Entered the Spanish military de Joinville, the King and Queen of Den- service, then went to Italy to resume his mark, Due Decazes, Monsignor Sibour, and artistic studies at Rome. Inspired byRaph- Pope Pius IX. (1855). Larousse. I ael's fresco of the victory of Constantine 342
