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DELAUNAY Beaux Arts, Paris ; Pico della Mirandola taught by his Mother (1842), Nantes Muse- um ; Pilgrims at Rome (1842) ; Mother's Joys, Herodias (1843) ; portrait of Gregory XVI. (1844), Charlemagne crossing the Alps (1847), Versailles Museum ; Napoleon at Fontainebleau (1845), Leipsic Museum ; The Swing (1845), Nantes Museum ; Napo- leon crossing the Alps (1848); Marie An- toinette leaving the Tribunal (1851); Napo- leon at St. Helena (1852), Queen Victoria ; Last Prayer of Children of Edward TV. (1852); Mater Dolorosa (1852), Liege Mu- seum ; Moses exposed on Nile, Entombment (1853) ; Last Communion of Mary Stuart (1854); Beatrice Cenci going to Execution, Christ in the Garden (Norzy sale, I860, 8,000 fr.), Christian Martyr (1855); Girondists, Re- turn from Golgotha, Virgin inContemplation, Virgin with Holy Women (1856). Portraits : Napoleon, Duke of Portland's Collection ; Due d'Angoulfime ; Mile. Sontag ; Due de Noailles ; de Remusat ; Prince Adam Czar- toryski ; de Salvandy ; Thiers ; Guizot ; Changarnier; Count Mole; Pourtales. Works in United States : Study of Head, T. A, Havemeyer, New York ; Christ the Con- soler, A. Belmont, New York ; Temptation of Christ, T. Corse, New York ; Gethsemane, H. V. Newcomb, New York ; Nymph of the Fountain, D. O. Mills, New York; The Hemicyde (1853), W. T. Walters, Baltimore. Godde, CEuvre de P. D., 86 photos. (Paris, 1868) ; Hamerton, French Painters ; Ch. Blanc, cole fran^-aise ; Runtz Rees, P. De- laroche ; Larousse, vi. 335 ; Meyer, Gesck, 475 ; Perrier, Etudes, 50 ; Rossetti, 101 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1860), v. 325 ; vi. 319 ; (1861), x. 57. DELAUNAY, JULES ELIE, born at Nantes, June 12, 1828. Genre painter; pu- pil of Hipp. Flandrin, L. Laroutte, and of the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where he won the 2d grand prix in 1835, and the grand prix de Rome in 1856. Has decorated several churches. Medals : 3d class, 1859 ; 2d class, 1863, 1865, and 1867 ; L. of Honour, 1867. Works : Christ driving the Money Changers from the Temple (1853) ; Return of Tobias (1856); The Salt-makers of Guerande (1853) ; The Flute Lesson (1859); Brutus's Oath (Tours Museum) ; Death of the Nymph Hes- r * peria (1863) ; ^J 'f> (jfljL4/ISj2/S Communion >X^ of the Apostles (1865), Plague in Rome (1869), Death of Nessus (1870) ; Diana (1872), Luxembourg. He has painted only portraits since 1872. DELAVAL, PIERRE LOUIS, born in Paiis, April 27, 1790, died in 1870. History painter, pupil of Girodet; and only a barren imitator of his master. Medal : 2d class, 1817. Works: St. Clotilda urging Clovis to embrace Christianity (1817), St. Louis, Versailles; Minerva protecting the Arts (1819), Grand Trianon; Psyche abandoned by Cupid, Grenoble Museum; The Virgin (1827), St. Cecilia, Cathedral of Meaux; St. Louis with the Oriflamme. DELEN. See Deelen. DELESTRE, JEAN BAPTISTE, born in Lyons, Jan. 10, 1800, died in Paris in Janu- ary, 1871. Genre painter, pupil of Gros; was also a writer on art, and excelled rather as a teacher than a painter. He took an active part in the Revolution of 1848. Works: Carmelite; Murder of Clodimir's Children; Jesus and the Heavy-Laden; Peter's Re- pentance; Justice; Sappho at Leucadia. Larousse. DELFT, WILLEM JACOBSZEN, born in 1580 (1592), died in 1638. Dutch school; third son and pupil of Jacob AVillemszen, and pupil of Mierevelt, whose daughter he married. He devoted himself later entirely to engraving. There is an excellent female portrait by him (1632) in the StUdel Gallery, Frankfort. His son, Jacob Willemszen (1619- 1661), was a portrait painter. Kugler (Crowe), i. 257. DELFT (Delff), JACOB WILLEMSZEN, died in Delft in 1601. Dutch school; por- trait painter; among whose works are A Reconciliation between Esau and Jacob (1584), in the Vienna Museum, an Archer's Repast in the City Hall, Delft (1592), and a 388