DtfCKER DUCKER, EUGEN (GUSTAV), born at Arensberg, on the Isle of Oesel, Livonia, Feb. 10, 1841. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy; obtained in 1862 the great gold medal, travelled through Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, and Italy, and settled in Diisseldorf, where, in 1872, he was appointed professor at the Academy. Works : "Wood near Diisseldorf, Mill, Strand on Baltic Sea, View on Isle of Biigen, Konigsberg Museum ; After the Rain, Swamp, Dry River-Bed, Storm, St. Petersburg Academy ; Evening Twilight in Rligen, National Gallery, Berlin. Brock- haus, v. 612 ; Miiller, 14.6. DUCORNET, LOUIS CESAR JOSEPH, born at Lille, Jan. 10, 1806, died in Paris, April 27, 1856. Born without arms, like Felu. History and portrait painter, pupil of Guillon-Lethiere and Gerard. In spite of his deformity he painted creditable pict- ures. Medals : 2d class, 1820 ; 1st class, 1822. Works : Slave-Merchant (1833), Ar- ras Museum ; Marguerite consulting a Flow- er (1834); Apparition of Christ to Magdalen (1835); Death of Mary Magdalen (1840), St. Andre, Lille ; Repose in Egypt (1841) ; Christ in the Sepulchre (1843); St. Denis preaching to Gauls (1846), St. Louis de 1'He, Paris ; Vision of St. Philomela (1846); Nest of Tomtits (1848), Portrait of Gen. Regner, (1849), Lille Museum ; Gloria in Excelsis (1850), Church of Auxy-le-Chuteau ; Fair Edith finding Body of Harold (1855), Com- piegne ; Parting of Hector and Andromache, St. Louis administering Justice, Lille Mu- seum. Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 467 ; Larousse. DUCQ, JAN LE, born at The Hague in 1636 or 1638, died there in 1695. Dutch school ; animal and landscape painter, sup- posed pupil of Paul Potter ; joined painters' guild at Hague in 1658, and painted for it a ' Shepherdess and Cows ; also (1662) a Land- scape with Herd and Herdsmen is in the Cassel Gallery. Westrheene, Life of Paul Potter, 123. V> DUCQ, JOSEPHUS FRANCISCUS, bora at Ledeghem, West Flanders, Sept. 10, 1762, died in Bruges, April 9, 1829. Flem- ish school ; history and genre painter, pu- pil of Bruges Academy and of Suvee in Paris, where he obtained the first prize in 1792, and another later ; went in 1807 to Rome, six years later returned to Paris, and in 1815 became professor at Bruges Academy, afterwards its director ; court painter, mem- ber of Antwerp and Ghent Academies ; Or- der of Lion. Works : Night and Daybreak, Meleager entreated by his Allies to save Calydon (1804) ; Devotion of a Scythian (1810) ; Antouello da Messina in Jan van Eyck's Studio (1820); Angelica and Medoro (1820); Scipio receiving Envoys of Anti- ochus ; Esther and Ahasuerus ; School- master after Biou's Idyl ; Engraver Meule- meester at the Vatican, Artist's Portrait ; Birth of Venus, Brussels Museum ; William I. of Netherlands, Van Gierdergom, Bruges Academy. Biog. nat. de Belgique, vi. 238 ; Immerzeel, i. 201. DUCREUX, JOSEPH, born at Nancy, 1737, died on the road from St. Denis to Paris, July 24, 1802. French school ; por- trait painter, pupil of De Latour, and inti- mate friend of Greuze ; sent to Vienna in 1769 to paint Marie Antoinette, to whom he became court painter. Member of Vienna and Paris Acad- emies. Excelled in pastel. Works: Portraits of Jo- seph H. and of Maria Theresa, copies of pictures by other artists, miniatures. Ch. Blanc, J^cole franqaise ; Bellier de la Chavig- nerie, i. 468. DUEL AFTER THE MASQUERADE (Duel au sortir d'un Bal masque), Gerome, William T. Walters, Baltimore ; canvas, H. 1 ft. 3 in. x 1 ft. 9 in. A quarrel has taken place at a ball in Paris, and the masquers, without waiting to change their costumes, have adjourned at dawn to the Bois de Bo- logne to fight under the trees. It is winter, and the ground is covered with new-fallen snow. Pierrot has received a death-wound 438
