painter, pupil of Cogniet, Pils, Mazerolle, and Oury. Medal, 2d class, 1885. Works: Mephistopheles and the Scholar (1868); Beheading of St. John (1870); Environs of Douarnenez (1879); Last Supper (1880); On the Stone Beach (1881); Portraits (1885).
MATHIEU, AUGUSTE, born at Dijon in
1810, died in Paris, March, 1864. Architecture
painter, pupil of Ciceri; painted interiors
of public buildings. Medals: 2d
class, 1842; L. of Honour, 1859. Works:
Interior of Church of Nuremberg (1838);
St. Nicholas de Brou (1842); Ratisbon;
Picardy; Andernach; Hall of the Dijon
Museum; Cathedral of Ulm; Cathedral of
Angoulême; Mysterious House of Adam
Krafft in Nuremberg; St. Géreon in Cologne
(1859); Chapel of Mont St. Bernard.—Bellier,
ii. 52; Larousse.
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MATHIEU, LAMBERT JOSEPH, born
at Bure, Belgium,
May 5, 1804, died at
Louvain in 1861. History
painter, pupil of
Antwerp Academy
under Mattheus Ignatius
van Bree, then
studied in Paris; returned
in 1833, and
became director and
first professor of Louvain
Academy in 1834; member of Antwerp
Academy in 1835. Knight of Order of Leopold.
Works: The Flood (1833), Brussels
Museum; Death of Rubens, Philip the Good
decorating his Lady Love with Order of
Golden Fleece (1834); Christ on the Cross
(1836), Jesuit Church, Louvain; Maria of
Burgundy thrown from her Horse at the
Chase (1864); Holy Family; Isabella of
Croy serving Breakfast for Louis XI. and
Quentin Durward (1837); Castellan caressing
Falcon, Falcon Chase (1838); Education
of the Virgin, Assumption (1839);
Raphael and the Fornarina; Daughter of
Jairus; Jacob and Rachel (1842).—Immerzeel,
ii. 207; Raczynski, iii. 450.
MATHILDE, PRINCESS, born at Trieste,
May 27, 1820. Genre painter in water-*colours,
daughter of King Jérôme Bonaparte,
pupil of Eugène Giraud. Medal,
1865. Works: Head Study (1864); Intrigue
under the Portico of Ducal Palace
in Venice (1865); Young Girl's Head (1865),
formerly in Luxembourg Museum; Jewess
of Algiers (1866), Lille Museum; Turco's
Head (1867).—Bellier, ii. 54.
MATOUT, LOUIS, born at Renwez (Ardennes),
March 19, 1811. Historical and
mythological genre painter, pupil of the
Art School at Charleville; was at first
an architect; painted mediocre decorative
works, such as frescos in one of the rooms
of the Louvre. Medals: 3d class, 1853,
1857; L. of Honour, 1857. Works: Pan
and Nymphs; Woman of Boghari torn by
Lioness (1855), Luxembourg Museum; Rich
and Poor (1861), Châteauroux Museum; Marriage
of Bacchus and Ariadne (1875); Venus
Pandemos (1876); Christ at Simon's House
(1879), La Rochelle Cathedral; Perseus delivering
Andromeda (1884); Nymph asleep
in Pan's Forest (1885); mural paintings in
the École de Médecine (1857); do. in the
Lariboisière Hospital, and Imperial Gallery,
Louvre.—Bellier, ii. 55; Du Camp, Beaux
Arts, 27; Gaz. des B. Arts (1861), x. 94.
MATSYS. See Massys.
MATTACCIO, IL. See Sodoma.
MATTEIS, PAOLO DE, born at Cilento,
Naples, in 1662, died at Naples in 1728.
Neapolitan school; history painter, pupil
of Luca Giordano and of Giovanni Maria
Morandi; worked in Rome for Popes Clement
XI., Clement XII., and Benedict XIII.;
invited to France, he acquired during a
residence of three years celebrity at court
and throughout the kingdom. After his
return he deviated from the style of Giordano,
leaning more towards the Roman
school. Many of his frescos and easel pictures
are in Genoa and Naples, and he painted
much at Monte Cassino in 1692, and in
1706-9. Works: Scenes from Tasso's Jerusalem
(3), Aschaffenburg Gallery; Death
