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Works: Painting and Sculpture, Music and Poetry, Cassel Gallery; Miser with Purse and Key, Old Man holding Spectacles (2), Old Woman over Pan of Coals, St. Peter, Dresden Museum; Men's Busts (2), Bergamo Gallery; Old Man with Wine-glass, Galleria Estense, Modena; Portrait of a Warrior, three others, Turin Gallery; Portraits of Doges Marco Foscarini and Pietro Grimani, Venice Academy.


NOLI ME TANGERE (Touch me not), Mariotto Albertinelli, Louvre; canvas, H. 1 ft. 11 in. × 1 ft. 6 in. Mary Magdalen kneels before Christ; in middle distance, at left, Christ leaving the sepulchre. Painted about 1490-1500. Shows influence of Fra Bartolommeo. From Collection of Louis XIV.—Cat. Louvre.

By Correggio, Madrid Museum; wood, H. 4 ft. 3 in. × 3 ft. 3 in. Jesus and Mary Magdalen. Presented to Philip IV. by Duke de Medina de las Torres; brought to Museum from the Escorial.—Cat. Madrid Mus.

By Titian, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 3 ft. 6-1/2 in. × 2 ft. 11-1/2 in. Christ and the Magdalen in the foreground of a beautiful landscape; she, on her knees, raises her hand to touch him, while he, slightly bending, draws back his robe as he utters the words. Painted about 1518; in Museo Muselli, Verona, before 1646; afterwards in Orleans Gallery, whence it passed to Mr. Champernowne, at whose sale in 1820 it was bought by Rogers the poet, who bequeathed it to the National Gallery in 1855. Engraved by N. Tardieu.—C. & C., Titian, i. 210; Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 458; Cab. Crozat, ii. Pl. 144; Richter, 86.

By Titian, Madrid Museum; canvas fast to panel, H. 2 ft. 3 in. × 2 ft. Only a part of original, containing figure of Christ in a white tunic and blue mantle. Found in the Escorial, where it served as a cover to an oil-jar. How it became mutilated is unknown; it was entire when taken to Spain in 1556 by Mary of Burgundy. Copy in the Escorial.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 232; Academy (London, 1872), March; Revue Universelle des Arts, iii. 141.


NOLLEKENS, JOSEPH FRANCIS, called Old Nollekens, born in Antwerp, June 10, 1702, died in London, Jan. 21, 1748. Portrait, figure, and landscape painter, son of a painter who had resided some time in England. He went to London in 1733, and studied under Peter Tillemans, copying after Watteau and Paolo Pannini. A portrait group by him of Frederick Prince of Wales and sisters is at Windsor. He was the father of Joseph Nollekens the sculptor.


NOLLET, DOMINICUS, born at Bruges in 1640, died in Paris in 1736. Flemish school; landscape and battle painter, pupil in Paris of Frans van der Meulen; entered guild of Bruges in 1687, became court-*painter to the Elector Maximilian Emmanuel of Bavaria, who was then Governor of the Netherlands; followed him to Munich in 1701, and returned in 1726 to settle in Paris. Works: Skirmish between Germans and Janizaries, Augsburg Gallery; St. Louis arriving in the Holy Land, Carmelites, Bruges.—Immerzeel, ii. 266; Michiels, x. 464.


NOLPE, PIETER, born at The Hague in 1601, died in Amsterdam after 1670. Dutch school; landscape painter, settled at Amsterdam before 1630. Works: Dutch Landscape (1633), Berlin Museum; do., Copenhagen Gallery; do. with Canal and Fishermen (1633), Old Pinakothek, Munich.—Immerzeel, ii. 266; Kramm, iv. 1204.


NONCLERCQ, ÉLIE, born at Valenciennes (Nord); contemporary. History and portrait painter, pupil of Cabanel. Medal, 2d class, 1881. Works: Ishmael Abandoned (1875); Idyl (1876); Leda (1877); Samson and Delilah (1878); Christ Healing the Leper (1879); Odalisque (1880); Atala (1881); Death and the Wood-Cutter (1882); Imprudent One (1883); Abraham dismissing Hagar (1885); Mlle. Weber as Marie in the "Jacobites" (1886).