- ers, Rochester; Fisher Girl, W. B. Bement,
Philadelphia; Prayer, H. L. Dousman, St. Louis; do., Daniel Catlin, ib.; Poverty, S. A. Coale, ib.—Bellier, ii. 239; Claretie, Peintres (1874), 216.
PERRÉAL, JEAN, called Jehan de Paris,
flourished in 1455-1527. French school;
battle painter; mentioned in 1455 as in the
service of the Duc d'Orléans; in 1489 the
city of Lyons entrusted to him decorations
for the entry of Charles VIII. Court-painter
to the latter in 1483-98, and in 1498-1515
to Louis XII., whom he accompanied
in his Italian campaign. His latest biographer,
Bancel, attributes to him a Betrothal
of Charles VIII. with Ann of Brittany, recently
presented by him to the Louvre; also
a Madonna della Misericordia, in the Museum
at Puy, and the Magdalen, assigned to
Rogier van der Weyden, in the National Gallery,
London.—Bancel, Jehan Perréal (Paris,
1885); Bellier, ii. 232; Gaz. des B. Arts
(1861), xi. 380; (1885), xxxi. 322; Kunst-Chronik,
xx. 460; Kunstfreund (1885), No.
7; Renouvier, Jehan de Paris (Paris, 1861);
Schnaase, viii. 330; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xxi. 326.
PERRET, AIMÉ, born at Lyons in 1847.
Genre painter, pupil of Guichard, Vollon,
and of the École des Beaux Arts of Lyons.
Medal, 3d class, 1877. Works: Return to
Stable in a Snow Storm (1869); Women on
Banks of the Rhône (1870); Fisherman's
Daughter, Return from Fishing (1873);
Between two Fires (1875); Burgundian
Wedding in 18th Century (1876); A Baptism
(1877), Lyons Museum; A Dream in
the Grass, Portrait of Mme. Judic (1878);
Stirrup Cup (1879); The Eucharist in Burgundy
(1879), Luxembourg Museum; Conflagration
in a Village (1880); Seedsman
(1881); Vintage in Burgundy, Rural Postman
(1882); Maiden of the Fields (1883);
Sunday in Burgundy (1884); Spring of
Life (1885); Shepherd's Betrothed, Mower
(1886).—Bellier, ii. 239.
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PERRIER, FRANÇOIS, called Il Borgognone,
born at Saint-Jean-de-Losne (Burgundy)
in 1590, died in Paris in July, 1656.
French school; genre painter and engraver,
pupil of Lanfranco in Rome, where he studied
in 1620-30. After a second visit to
Rome, which he finally left in 1645, he became
one of the twelve founders, called Ancients,
of the French Academy of Painting
and Sculpture (1648). Works: Acis and
Galatea, Orpheus before Pluto, Æneas and
Warriors fighting
Harpies (1645),
Louvre; David offering
Thanks to
God after Victory
over Goliath, Lyons
Museum.—Bellier,
ii. 241; Ch. Blanc, École française;
Jal, 958; Mémoires inédits, i. 127; Villot,
Cat. Louvre.
PERRIN, JEAN CHARLES NICAISE,
born in Paris in 1754, died there, Sept. 23,
1831. Genre painter, pupil of Doyen and
Durameau. Won the second grand prix in
1775. Director of the free school of drawing
and mathematics; Member of Academy,
1787. Works: Venus healing the Wound
of Æneas (1787), France consecrating Captured
Flags to Our Lady of Glory (1806),
Louvre; Death of the Virgin (1789), Palais
de Trianon; Cyrus condemned to Death
by Astyages (1802), Palace of Versailles;
Portrait of Marshal Lannes (1810), Museum,
ib.; Assumption (1804), Montpellier Cathedral;
Pauline, wife of Seneca, refusing to
survive her Husband, Dijon Museum.—Bellier,
ii. 243; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Lejeune,
Guide, i. 388.
PERRY, E. WOOD, born in Boston,
Mass., in 1831. Genre painter, pupil of
Emanuel Leutze in Düsseldorf, and of Couture
in Paris. Visited Europe in 1852-60;
studied and sketched in London, Paris,
Düsseldorf, Rome, and Venice. In 1860
returned to America, made a tour of the
South and West, and in 1864 visited the
Sandwich Islands. Elected an A.N.A. in
1868, and N.A. in 1869. Studio in New
York. Works in oil: The Weaver, Fireside
Stories (1869); Lost Art (1871); Old Story