DESIIAYS jects, his subjects being finished with micro- On his return he became a member of the scopic exactness. Medals : 3d class, 1861 ; I Academy in 1758, and painted many good 2d class, 1863. Works : Two Cups of Ori- altarpieces for churches. Works : Prayer ental Agate (1857) ; Amethyst Vase (1859), i of St. Andrew, Flagellation of St. Andrew Luxembourg Museum ; Agate Vase on an (painted for Cathedral of Rouen and en- Enamelled Pedestal, Onyx Pitcher, Turkish Carpet (1859) ; Crystal Vase, etc., from Louvre (1863), Luxembourg Museum; Fruit graved by Ph. Pariseau); Susanna (engraved by Nicollet under title of Resistance); Venus throwing Flowers on Body of Hector, Mont- pellier Museum ; and several in Rouen Mu- and Jewels (1864) ; Fruit and Jewels, Flowers and Jewels (1868) ; Rock Crys- tal engraved, Agate and Enamels (1874) ; Saxon Porcelain, etc. (1874), Count Wells de la Valette ; Carved Wood, Bronze Head, etc. (1874); Crystal Vase with Bust of a Roman Emperor, etc., View near Puy de seum. Ch. Blanc, Ecole francaise ; Gaz. des Dome (1879); Cross with Crystals, etc., Cup B. Arts (1868), xxiv. 258. attributed to Benvenuto, etc. (1880); Eques- j DESPORTES, ALEXANDRE FRAN- trian Statuette with Tapestry (1881); Royal j COIS, born at Birthday Gift (1882); Enamels with Crystal Champigneul, and Grapes, Statuette representing Force, j Feb. 24, 1661, etc. (1883); Fruits and Jewels, Majolica and [died in Paris, Flowers (1884); Objects of Ancient Art, Agate ! April 15, 1743. Vase and Fruits (1885). Works in United French school ; States : Objects of Art from Louvre, Miss C. landscape, ani- L. Wolfe, New York ; Objects of Art Two ] mal, and still-life Subjects, W. Rockefeller, New York ; Objects ; painter ; pupil of of Art, T. R. Butler, New York ; Crown of Nicasius Ber- Louis XTV., B. Wall, Providence ; Crystal naert, a Flemish Cup and Pansies, T. Wigglesworth, Boston ; animal painter in Flowers and Objects of Art, H. B. Hurlbut Paris, whence, meeting with little success, Collection, Cleveland ; Vase of Flowers, C. he went to Poland, in 1695, acquired great Crocker, San Francisco ; Art in the Louvre, W. B. Bement, Philadelphia ; Articles of reputation, and painted King Sobieski, the queen, and many nobles. On his return to Vertu, A. J. Drexel, Philadelphia ; Objects France, after Sobieski's death, he painted of Art, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn ; Objects of Art, D. O. Mills, New York ; Still-life, C. P. Huntington, New York ; Still-life, C. S. Smith, New York ; Objects of Art, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York ; Flowers and Vase, chiefly hunting pieces. In 1699 he was re- ceived into the Academy, of which he was made chancellor in 1704 by Louis XTV., whom he accompanied on all his hunting expeditions. In 1712 spent six months in L. Tuckerman, New York ; Objects of Vertu, England, where his pictures sold at high H. C. Gibson, Philadelphia. Larousse ; | prices. He continued to enjoy court patron- age during the Regency and the reign of Louis XV. Works : Portrait of Himself Hamerton, Painting in France. DESHAYS, JEAN BAPTISTE, born in Rouen in 1729, died in Paris in 1765. French j (1699), Wolf Hunt (1702), Diana and Blonde school ; history painter, first instructed by ' (dogs of Louis XTV., 1702), portrait of a his father, and then in Paris by Boucher, j Huntsman (1704), Boar Hunt (1704), Game whose daughter he married. In Italy he and Vegetables in Kitchen (1707), Game was led to imitate Benedetto Castiglioue. J guarded by Dogs (1700), do. (1709), Game aui
