MAILLART, DIOGÈNE ULYSSE NAPOLÉON, born at Chaussée-du-Bois-de-l'Écu (Oise), Oct. 28, 1840. History and portrait painter, pupil of Cornu, Laemmlein, and Cogniet. Won the grand prix de Rome in 1864. Medals: 1870; 2d class, 1873. Works: Thetis arming Achilles; Homer giving Drink to Achilles, Hero killing a Monster (1874); Judgment of Paris (1879); Prometheus Chained (1880); Same subject (1882); Stephen Marcel listening to the Ordinance (1883); Death of Correus (1885).—Bellier, ii. 11.
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MAILLE-SAINT-PRIX, LOUIS (ANTOINE), born in Paris, Nov. 17, 1796. Landscape painter, pupil of Hersent and Picot. Medals: 3d class, 1841; 2d class, 1844. Works: View of the Pont de Breuil, Ruins of St. Jean-de-l'Ile, Village of Soisy (1831); Bridge of Olivet (1835); Foggy Morning (1841); Valley of Corbeil (1844); The Rhine, Souvenirs of Mt. Dore, Souvenir of Mayence (1848); Interior of a Turkish House in Damascus, First Cataract of the Nile, Village of Zoldoni (1852); Evening (1859); A Landscape (1863); Environs of Thion, Valley of Étiolles (1864).—Bellier, ii. 11; Larousse.
MAILLOT, THÉODORE PIERRE NICOLAS,
born in Paris, July 30, 1826. History
and portrait painter, pupil of Drölling
and Picot, and of the École des Beaux Arts,
won the 2d prix de Rome in 1850, and the
grand prix in 1854. Medal, 1867; L. of
Honour, 1870. Works: Zenobia on the
Banks of the Araxes (1850); Abraham washing
the Angels' Feet (1854); Christ and the
Woman of Samaria (1863); St. John (1867);
Fénélon in Battle of Malplaquet, 1709
(1870); Apotheosis and Transportation of
Relics of St. Marcel, Notre Dame, Paris;
The Three Theological Virtues, St. Jacques-du-Haut-Pas,
ib.—Bellier, ii. 12.
MAINARDI, SEBASTIANO, born at San
Gimignano, died (probably in Florence) in
Sept., 1513. Florentine school; brother-in-law
and pupil of Ghirlandajo, and his assistant
in some of his greatest works in Florence
and S. Gimignano. Though inferior
in every way, his work has been sometimes
confounded with that of his master, as in
the Baroncelli Chapel, S. Croce. Most of
his works are at S. Gimignano. There are
a fine portrait and a Madonna by him in the
Berlin Museum, and a Holy Family, attributed
to Ghirlandajo, in the Louvre.—C. &
C., Italy, ii. 493; Vasari, v. 74.
MAINCENT, GUSTAVE, born in Paris;
contemporary. Landscape painter, pupil of
Pils and Cabasson. Medal, 3d class, 1883.
Works: Views in and near Paris (1870,
1873, 1874, 1877); Champs-Elysées (1878);
Mill de la Galette (1880); Place Pigale
(1881); Slaughter-House at Méricourt
(1882); Village Wedding, Pont-Marie
(1883); At Saint-Ouen, Return from Fishing
(1884); Notre-Dame Bridge (1885).
MAIR (Mayr), JOHANN ULRICH, born
at Augsburg in 1630, died there in 1704.
History and portrait painter, pupil of Rembrandt
and of Jordaens; went to England
and Italy, and after his return to Augsburg
won great fame as a portrait painter; was invited
to the imperial and other courts, and
made court-painter to the Emperor Leopold.
Works: Apostle Philip reading (1653), Museum,
Vienna; Fortune Teller, Tobias and
the Angel, Schönborn Gallery, ib.; Artist's
portrait (1650), Germanic Museum, Nuremberg;
A Philosopher, Brunswick Museum.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xxi. 141; Sandrart, ii.
329.
MAISIAT, JOANNY, born at Lyons, May
5, 1824. Fruit and flower painter, pupil
of the Lyons Art School, and of Henri Lehmann.
Medals: 1864 and 1867; 2d class,
1872. Works: Sweet-brier in Spring
(1863), Valenciennes Museum; Gathered
Fruits (1864); Bouquet of Moss Roses
(1867); Border of Path on a Hill in Touraine
(1867), Flowers and Fruits (1868),
Luxembourg Museum; The First Flowers;
Fruits on the Ground (1873); Violets
