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El Ayn (The Fountain, 1876); Syria by the Sea (1876), James F. Joy, Detroit; Morning in the Tropics (1877), William E. Dodge, Jr., New York; The Monastery (1878), Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland, O.; Valley of Santa Marta (1879), Charles Parsons, St. Louis.


CHURCH, F. S., born at Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1842. Animal painter; pupil of the National Academy and of the Chicago Academy. Paints in oil and water-colour, and draws in black and white. Elected an A.N.A. in 1885. Member of Society of American Artists. Studio in New York. Works in oil: Mad as March Hares; Weirdness; Solo; Sea Princess; Back from the Beach (1879); Muskrat's Nest (1880); Foggy Day (1881); Willing Captive (1883). Water-Colours: Hard Times; Chilly Day (T. B. Clarke, New York); Foraging Party; Elfin Tandem; Phantom; Ostrich Dance; Awkward Squad; Pandora, King's Flamingoes (1884); Peacocks in the Snow (1885).


CIBOT, (FRANÇOIS) BARTHÉLEMY (MICHEL ÉDOUARD), born in Paris, Feb. 11, 1799, died there, Jan. 10, 1877. French school; genre painter, pupil of Guérin, of Picot, and of École des Beaux Arts. Painted also historical subjects, landscapes, and portraits, and executed frescos in the Church of St. Leu. Medals: 2d class, 1836; 1st class, 1843, 1857, and 1863; L. of Honour, 1863. Works: Judith, Cambray Museum; Wounded Mother nursing Child, The Sybarites (1827); Christ tempted by Satan, Incident in Life of Fredegonda, Louis XV. and Mlle. de Humières, Amours of the Angels, Chain Gang (1836); Indiscreet Visit, Diana painted by Jean Goujon before Henri II., Little Conscripts, Galileo at Notre Dame, Raphael and Perugino, Young Married Woman, Regina Cœli (1846); Nativity, Charity, Valley of Fontenay-aux-Roses, Chestnut-Trees of Aulnay, A Thicket (1855); Origin of the Sacred Heart, St. Luke, Paris; Funeral of Godfrey de Bouillon, Victory of Raymond Dupuy, Defence of Beauvais, Versailles Museum; Park at Orsay, Spring-Time, Summer, Environs of Sceaux (1857); The Angel can Sleep, The Angel Watches, Environs of Sceaux, First Days of May (1859); Landscape at Aulnay, Chartreux Convent at Sceaux (1861); Valley of the Brèvre, Cliffs at Tréport, The Sarthe (1863); Whirlpool near Seineport (1864), Luxembourg Museum; Soisy-on-the-Ecole (1865), Valley of Sceaux, View near Beaulieu (1866); View at Rochefort (1867); Gravel-Pit, Environs of Paris (1868); Woods of Meudon, Chestnut-trees (1869); Vision of Ezekiel, Environs of Sèvres (1874).—Larousse; L'Art (1877), viii. 24.


CIENNI DA FIRENZE. See Cennini.


CIGALE, LA (The Grasshopper), Jules Joseph Lefebvre, D. Catlin, St. Louis; canvas, H. 8 ft. × 3 ft. Illustration of La Fontaine's fable. Female figure, full length, nude, standing, biting her fingers and pouting as the first breeze of autumn whistles.—Art Treasures of America, iii. 55.



CIGNANI, CARLO, Count, born in Bologna, May 15, 1628, died at Forli, Sept. 6, 1719. Bolognese school; of an ancient Bolognese family; most noted pupil of Albani; afterward studied works of Correggio and of Annibale Carracci. About 1658 he painted for Cardinal Farnese, in the Palazzo Publico, Bologna, the two frescos representing the Entry of Paul III. into Bologna, and Francis I. of France healing Lepers. His most important work was the painting of the cupola of the Cathedral at Forli, which occupied him nearly twenty years, the subject being the Assumption of the Virgin. Works: Infant Christ and St. John, Mater Dolorosa, Palazzo Corsini, Rome; Charity, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; do., Turin Gallery; Bacchus and Erigone, Nero and the Body of his Mother, Achilles and Ulysses, Magdalen, Madonna, Cassel Gallery; Chastity of Joseph, Dresden