Page:Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, 1887, vol 3.djvu/467

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PERNIA

View on Klopein Lake (1854); Castle Feistritz (1856); The Gross Glockner (1857); Album of Carinthia (30); Panorama of the Gross Glockner (9), Alpenvereiu, Vienna. Wurzbach, xxii. 35.

PERNIA, portrait, Velasquez, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. G ft. C in. x 4 ft. Commonly called Portrait of Barbaroja or Barbarossa, but now identified as Peruia, an actor of the time of Philip IV. A mail in Venetian costume, standing, looking to right; in right hand a sword, in left the scabbard. Unfinished. Latest manner. Engraved by L. Croutelle. Etched by F. Goya; C. Alabern. Curtis, 31; Madrazo, 627.


PERNOT, ALEXANDRE FRANCOIS, born at Vassy (Haute-Marne), Feb. 15, 1793, died there, Nov. 3, 18G5. Landscape painter, pupil of Herseut and Victor Bertin. Between 1818 and 1828 he made many sketches for oil and water-colour pictures in Scotland, Germany, Switzerland, and France. Medals: 2d class, 1822; 1st class, 1839; Austrian grand gold medal, 1840; L. of Honour, 1846. Works: Ditches of Vincenncs in 1815 (1822), Angers Museum; William Tell's Chapel; Marius at, Carthage; Castle of Bayard; Valley of Domrcmv; Abbotsford; Edinburgh; Holyrood; Precipices of Bozouls (1829); View of Part of Loch Loinoud (1833); Ruined Castle on the Rhine, Ruins of the Convent of Thusenbach (1834); Loch Leven Castle, Bridge of Clammecy (1835); Monument to Turenue at Sasbach (1836), Versailles Museum; View of Conches, Langres Museum; View of Strasburg Cathedral (1836), Rheims Museum; Burning of Chartres Cathedral in 1836, Chartres Museum; View of Chateau do Plessis-les-Tours (1851), Tours Museum; View of Nancy, Dijon Museum. Bellier, ii. 236; Larousse; Cotta, Kunstblatt (1846), 175.


PEROFF, BASIL, born at Tobolsk, Siberia, Dec., 1833. A natural son of Baron Kriidener, he was debarred by Russian law from taking his father's name, and was called Peroff (Russian ': pero," pen) for his early proficiency in writing. Genre painter, ' pupil in drawing and painting of Stoupin at Arsamass, whence he went to Moscow and studied three years in the Academy under Vasilieff. Ho received medals at St. Petersburg for his Boy's Head (1856) and his Village Magistrate, First Uniform, and Village Church (1861), and finally won the gold medal and was sent to Paris to study. About 1865 he settled permanently in Moscow, and devoted himself to painting Russian life. Member of and professor in the Moscow Academy. Works: Easter Procession (1861); En Route for the Troiski (1862); ' The Funeral (1865); New Governess, Drawing Master (1866); Last Wine Shop (1868); Students and the Monk (1871); Portraits of Turgenieff, StepanofF, Pissemski, Pogodin, the brothers Rubinstein, Ma'ikoff, Dahl, and others (1870-72); Bazarorf's Grave (1874, from Turgeuieffs "IVres et Eufauts