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especial merits. His design and colouring
are generally pleasing, but his handling is
weak and his feeling superficial. He was a
close imitator of Guido Reni. Works: Madonna,
Palazzo Doria, Rome; Annunciation,
The Virgin, Turin Gallery; Adoration of
the Shepherds, Basle Museum; Magdalen
in Meditation, Musée Rath, Geneva; Madonna
(2), The Virgin contemplating the
Infant Christ, Dresden Museum; Christ on
Mount of Olives, Fürstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen;
St. John in Patmos (1698),
Sleeping Child, Portrait of a Cardinal, Old
Pinakothek, Munich; The Virgin with the
Child in the Cradle, Allegory on Vanity,
Wood Nymph Bathing, Madonna, Children
by Vase with Flowers, Schleissheim Gallery;
Holy Family, Weimar Museum;
Death of St. Joseph (1676), Presentation in
the Temple, Holy Family (1704), The Trinity,
Museum, Vienna; Bathsheba, Liechtenstein
Gallery, ib.; Repose in Egypt, Harrach
Gallery, ib.; Holy Family (2), Czernin Gallery,
ib.; Adoration of the Shepherds, Holy
Family, Annunciation, Portrait of Pope
Clement IX., several others, Hermitage, St.
Petersburg; Madonna in Glory, Hagar and
Ishmael, Madrid Museum; Apollo pursuing
Daphne, Madonna, Brussels Museum; Portrait
of a Cardinal, National Gallery, London.—Vasari,
ed. Le Mon., viii. 40, 45;
Burckhardt, 170, 661, 670, 764, 768.
MARC, (JEAN) AUGUSTE, born at Metz,
July 12, 1818, died at Suresnes (Seine), May,
1886. History and genre painter, pupil of
Drölling, of Delaroche, and of the École des
Beaux Arts. L. of Honour in 1868, when
he also became director of L'Illustration, of
which he was then one of the most esteemed
contributors. Works: Soap-bubbles (1848);
Allegorical Figure of France (1855), Metz
Museum; Assassination of Duc de Guise,
1563 (1857); Mozart playing the Violin;
Eve Asleep; Sultana at the Bath; Christ in
the Prætorium, Cathedral of Mexico.—Bellier,
ii. 25; Chronique des Arts (1886),
165.
MARC, WILHELM, born at Landshut,
Bavaria, Oct. 9, 1839. Genre painter, pupil
of Munich Academy and of Erich Correns;
has repeatedly visited Italy; paints in the
manner of the old Venetian and Dutch masters.
Works: Decameron; Housewife;
Concert; Aphrodite; Alpine Shepherdess;
City and Country (1874); Children in Village
Churchyard, Venus Anadyomene (1876);
Evening in Convent Garden; Recess in
Boarding-School; Morning Prayer; A Question
(1883); Procession at Wackersberg,
Music at Eve on the Alp (Jubilee Exhibition,
Berlin, 1886).—Müller, 352; Illustr.
Zeitg. (1879), ii. 548; Kunst-Chronik, xviii.
213; xx. 745.
MARCEAU, DEATH-BED OF, Jean
Paul Laurens, M. Turquet, Paris; canvas,
H. 8 ft. × 10 ft. François Séverin des Graviers
Marceau, division commander in the
French army, was mortally wounded near
Altenkirchen, Rhenish Prussia, Sept. 20,
1796; and was carried within the Austrian
lines, where he died three days later, universally
regretted, even by his enemies.
The picture represents his body in full uniform
upon his death-bed, surrounded by
several French officers at left and the Austrian
staff-officers at right. Salon, 1877;
exhibited in New York, 1886.
MARCELLIS. See Marseus.
MARCELLO, NICCOLÒ, portrait of
Doge, Titian, Vatican; canvas, H. 4 ft. 11
in. × 2 ft. 11 in. Painted about 1508. From
Aldrovandi Collection, Bologna.—C. & C.,
Titian, i. 112.
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MARCH, ESTÉBAN, born in Valencia
about 1590, died there in 1660. Spanish
school; pupil of Pedro Orrente, from whom
he learned to colour
in the Venetian manner.
Painted principally
battle scenes
and coarse subjects, but sometimes also religious
compositions. Most of his pictures