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2d class, 1882; Philadelphia, 1876. Works: Women washing (1874); The Pyramids, Oaks of Grand Moulin, Street at Foucherolles (1875); In the Bay of Poult-Gouin, Farm of Brohonnière (1876); Souvenir of Cernay-la-Ville, Winter (1877); The Aven in Finistèrre (1878); The Beadle's Path (1879); Farm at Kerlaven in the Evening, A Quarry (1880); Woodman's Cabin in the Autumn (1881), Luxembourg Museum; Fagots (1882); Valley of the Mantega (1883); Lake of Vaux-de-Cernay (1884); Approaching Storm (1885).


DAMIANI, FELICE, born at Gubbio; flourished 1584-1616. Lombardo-Venetian school; history painter, pupil of Ben. Nucci (?). Works: Circumcision, S. Domenico, Gubbio; Decollation of St. Paul (1584), Castel Nuovo, Recanati; Baptism of St. Augustine (1594), S. Agostino, Gubbio. He decorated, about 1596, two chapels in La Madonna de' Lumi, San Severino, with illustrations of life of the Virgin and Infancy of Christ.


DAMINI, PIETRO, born at Castelfranco in 1592, died in Venice in 1631. Venetian school; history painter, pupil of Gio. Bat. Novelli; had won great reputation when he died of the plague. Executed many works at Castelfranco, Vincenza, Venice, Crema, and Padua. Works: Christ giving Keys to St. Peter, S. Clemente, Padua; Crucifixion, Il Santo, Padua; Life of St. Philip, cloister of the Serviti, Vicenza. His brother Giorgio, a good portrait painter, died also of plague, in Venice, in 1631.—Baldinucci, iv. 689.


DAMOPHILUS, painter and modeller in clay. One of the earliest Greek painters heard of in Italy. Decorated, with his companion Gorgasus, Temple of Ceres, Liber, and Libera at Rome (dedicated 494 B. C.).—Pliny, xxxv. 45 [154].


DAMOYE, PIERRE EMMANUEL, born in Paris; contemporary. Landscape painter, pupil of Corot, Daubigny, and Bonnat. Medals: 3d class, 1879; 2d class, 1884. Works: The Old Road at Auvers, The Fields (1875); Prairies of Mortefontaine (1876, 1877); Pastures, The Downs at Cucq (1878); Mill of Merlimont (1879), Luxembourg Museum; Fields at Auvers (1879); Crossway in Forest of Fontainebleau, Inundated Prairies (1880); Mill of Gouillandeur, In the Landes of Carnac (1881); Isle of St. Denis (1882); After the Inundation (1883); Lake in Sologne, Plain of Gennevilliers (1884); Road of the Dunes—Normandy, Swamp of Arleux (1885).


DANA, WILLIAM P. W., born in Boston, Mass., in 1833. Marine and figure painter; visited Paris in 1852 and became a pupil of Picot, Le Poitevin, and of the École des Beaux Arts. Returned to America in 1862, elected N.A. in 1863. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1878. Studio in Paris (1885). Works: Cliffs at Sunset; Waiting for the Fishing-*Boats; Marine (J. P. Morgan, New York), Chase of the Frigate Constitution (William Astor, ib.); Low Tide at Yport; Foggy Morning—Coast of Normandy; French Peasant Girl; Heart's-Ease; English Greyhound; Moonlight at Sea; On the Beach at Dinard—Brittany (1879); Breakers, Channel Islands (1881); Bleak Day, Coast of Brittany (1882); Sea-Weed Gatherers, Brittany (1883); Near St. Malo, Brittany (Mrs. Isaac Bell), Seaside Harvest, Halt and the Blind, French Boats off for the Fishing-Grounds, End of a Storm (1884); Rough Weather, A Calm Night (1885).


DANAË, Correggio, Palazzo Borghese, Rome; canvas. Danaë, nude, leaning against the cushions of a couch; on the lower end sits Hymen, with outstretched wings, lifting her drapery to catch the golden rain-drops; in front, two Cupids sharpening their arrows on a whetstone. Same history as the Leda of Correggio. Fetched 650 guineas at Orleans sale; in 1816 bought by Henry Hope for £183; afterwards sold in Paris for £285. One of the most beautiful of Correggio's mythological pictures. Engraved by Duchange; Desrochers; Trière; Cunigo; Surrugue.—Meyer, Correggio, 352, 490; Künst. Lex., i. 441; Lermolieff, 195; Landon, (Euvres, viii. Pl. 57; Mengs, Opere, ii. 148.