DUBUFE school ; history painter, pupil of Freminet ; worked for many years in Paris, Fontaine- bleau, and St. Germain en Laye. Works : Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalen ; Descent of the Holy Spirit ; The Earth ; Fire. The History of Ulysses, at Fontainebleau, begun by Primaticcio, was finished by Dubreuil. Ch. Blanc, ficole franchise ; Larousse. DUBUFE, CLAUDE MAEIE, born in Paris in 1790, died there, April 24, 1864 Genre and portrait painter, pupil of David. He was the last of David's school, having all its faults with few of its good qualities ; but was as popular with the public as he was abused by the critics. Medal, 1st class, 1831; L. of Honour, 1837. Works : Achilles protecting Iphigenia ; Roman Family dying of Hunger (1810) ; Christ allaying the Tem- pest (1819, St. Leu, Paris) ; Release of St. Peter (Chaillot) ; Apollo and Cyparissa (1822) ; Passage of the Bidassoa (1824) ; Birth of Due de Bordeaux (1824), Orleans Museum ; Regrets, Memorials (1837) ; The Surprise (1828), National Gallery, London ; Nest of Tomtits (1831) ; Republic (1849) ; Bull and Cows (1852) ; Village Girls of Nor- mandy, Girl Bathing, Birth of Venus (1859) ; portraits of Louis Philippe, Queen of the Belgians, General Montesquiou-Feseuzac, Versailles Museum. Bellier de la Chavig- nerie, i. 461. DUBUFE, EDOUARD, born in Paris in 1818, died in Ver- sailles, Aug. 11, 1883. History and portrait painter, son and pupil of Claude Marie, stud- ied afterwards un- der Paul Delaroche ; between 1841 and 1846 he painted re- ligious pictures, but later confined him- self to portraits. Medals : 3d class, 1839 ; 2d class, 1840, 1855, 1878 ; 1st class, 1844 ; L. of Honour, 1853 ; Officer, 1869. Works : Annunciation (1839); Miracle of Roses (1840) ; Poetry and Music (1840); Tobias (1841), Lisieux Museum ; The Three Cardinal Vir- tues (1842); Bathsheba (1844); Morning Prayer (1844), Tuileries, Paris ; Prisoner of Chillon (1846), Aix Museum ; Sleep (1866); Prodigal Son (1867); Death of Adonis (1877). Portraits of his Wife (1842) ; Jules Janiu and Paul Gayrard (1846); Empress Eugenie (1855); Rosa Bonheur (1857); Congress of Paris (1857), Versailles Museum ; Princess Mathilde, Duchess de Medina Creli, Marquise de Gallifet, Princess Ghika (1861) ; Robert- Fleury (1863); Gounod (1867); Gen. Fleury, Comte de Nieuwerkerke (1869); Medje (1872) ; Alexander Dumas, Jr. (1873) ; Phil- ippe Rousseau (1876), Emile Augier (1876), Luxembourg Museum. Bellier de la Chav- ignerie, i. 461 ; Larousse, vi. 1,320 ; Miil- ler, 145; Meyer, Gesch., 390; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 696 ; Vapereau. DUBUFE, GUILLAUME, born in Paris ; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, son and pupil of fidouard Dubufe ; student also of Mazerolle. Medals : 3d class, 1877 ; 2d class, 1878. Works : Study (1877) ; Saint Cecilia (April, 1878) ; Music, Sacred and Profane (1882) ; A Nest (1884). Zeitschr. f. b. K, xvii. 376. DUC. See Ducq. DUCCIO DI BUONINSEGNA, born in Siena about 1260, died after 1339. Sienese school ; the earliest great painter of Siena, where he is first heard of in 1282. In 1285 he was in Florence, as records show that he then contracted to paint an altarpiece of the Madonna for S. M. Novella, probably never executed, and in the autumn of that year at Siena, where he was appointed to fill an office, which he held until 1291. In 1301 he began a Majesty for the chapel of the Public Palace of Siena, of which no record remains, and seven years later commenced for the Duomo the famous altarpiece by which he is best known. In 1310 it was carried by the rejoicing people in procession through the streets to be installed in its i destined place. The panel, on one side of which was painted the Virgin enthroned 430
