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Gallery, Berlin; Cows at Pasture, Ploughing Oxen (1866), Cow-Stable, Cows near Toques, Deer at the Fairy Pond (1863), On the Way Home, Stags before the Fight, Critical Moment, Rochers de St. Christy, Street in Toques on Market-Day, two Pictures with Apostles (1874); On Stinitz Lake in Autumn (1884); Locked out (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Jordan (1885), ii. 161; Müller, 398.


O'CONNELL, FRIEDERIKE (née Miethe), born at Potsdam, March 22, 1823, died in Paris in October, 1885. Portrait painter, pupil in Berlin of Herbig and of Karl Begas, then at Brussels (1842) of Gallait; in 1844 she married, and after separation from her husband settled in Paris, where her portraits found great favor. In 1871 she lost her reason and was sent to an insane asylum. Gold medal, Brussels, 1851. Works: Humiliation of Richelieu; Charlotte Corday; Charity; Venus served by Cupids; Portraits of herself, of Rachel (1853); Peter the Great and Catherine, Maria Theresa and Frederic the Great (1853), Lady's Portrait, National Gallery, Berlin.—Jordan (1885), ii. 162; Chronique des Arts (1885), 262; Gaz. des B. Arts (1860), v. 349.


O'CONNOR, JOHN, born in England; contemporary. Architecture painter. Works: High Level Bridge—Newcastle-on-Tyne, Newcastle-on-Tyne—Morning (1877); Granada and the Alhambra, Patio de la Mesquita—Alhambra, Patio los Cypresses—Alhambra, Staircase of Burgos Cathedral, Las Torres Bermayas (1879); Waterloo Bridge (1880); Verona, do. from Piazza Dante (1881); Palladio's Piazza—Vicenza, Palladian Architecture—Vicenza (1882); Amiens Cathedral, Nuremberg—from Castle, Windsor—from St. Leonard's Hill (1883); View from Pentonville (1884).


OCTOBER AFTERNOON—LAKE GEORGE, John Frederick Kensett, Corcoran Gallery, Washington; canvas, H. 4 ft. × 6 ft. An open foreground of rocks and fallen trees, with wooded headlands, sloping to the island-dotted lake, and high mountains in background; in left foreground, cattle and a rustic bridge. Painted in 1864. Exhibited at Sanitary Fair, New York, in 1864, and at Exposition universelle, Paris, in 1867. Olyphant sale, 1877, $6,300.


ODALISQUE, Dominique Ingres, Baron Seillière, Paris. Nude, reclining on cushions with her back to the spectator, with head turned to show face. Her head is covered with a Cashmere turban, and she has a fan of peacock's feathers in her left hand. Painted in 1814. Salon, 1819. Engraved by Alès. Paris, Metzmacher. Lithographed by Ingres (1825); Sudre.—Ch. Blanc, Life, 26.

By Sir Frederick Leighton, Robert Leake Eccles, Manchester; canvas. The attendant of the ladies of an Eastern harem, leaning languidly on the marble parapet of a basin and gazing wistfully at a swan, which seems to recognize her. Royal Academy, 1861. Engraved by Lumb Stocks.—Art Journal (1876), 28.


ODALISQUE WITH SLAVE, Dominique Ingres, M. Marcotte, Argenteuil. Nearly nude, reclining on cushions, in a posture indicating ennui; at her feet a young Abyssinian slave, seated, playing on a mandolin; in background, a black eunuch, standing. Painted at Rome in 1839. Original sketch, Émile Galichon, Paris. Engraved by Haussoullier.—Ch. Blanc, Life, 106, 113.


ODERIGI D'AGOBBIO, or ODERISIO, of Gubbio, died in Rome about 1299. Bolognese school; a miniature painter, of Gubbio in 1264-65, at Bologna in 1268, and at Rome in 1295. Rescued from oblivion by Dante, who calls him in the Purgatorio (xi. 79) Agobbio's glory. Vasari says he lived in close friendship with Giotto in Rome. No certain pictures by him are known to exist, but the miniatures in two masses in the Archivio de' Canonici di S. Pietro, Rome, are presumed to be his.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 182; Vasari, i. 321; Baldinucci, iv. 176; Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise, Introd. v.; Cibo, 11.