JAGEK Gal. ile Versailles, No. 055 ; Norvins, Hist, tie Napoleon, i. 480. JAGER, GUSTAV, born in Leipsic, July 12, 1808, died there, April 10, 1871. His- tory painter, studied at first in Leipsic and at the Dresden Academy, and from 1830 in Munich under Julius Schnorr, whom, after visiting Rome in 1830-37, ho assisted in painting frescos in the new palace. In 1S40-48 ho decorated the Herder room at the castle in Weimar with frescos, and in 1850 painted one of the frescos in the Nic- belungen Hull at Munich. He was made director of the Leipsic Academy in 1847. Works : Entombment, Burial of Moses. Leipsic Museum (Cartoon in Weimar Mu- seum); Job (1833); Prayer of Moses during the Battle (1835); Balaam with the Angel (1830); Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine (1S55), Dresden Museum. Frescos : Char- lemagne driving the Longolmrda from Ger- many, Conquest of Saragossa, Battle with the Huns, Death of Charlemagne in Aachen, Charlemagne taking Pavia, Council at Frank- fort, Coronation of Charlemagne in Rome, Frederic Barbarossa proclaimed Emperor, Barbarossa's Entry into Milan, Peace Treaty with Alexander 111. in Venice, Death of Bar- barossa at Seleucia (1837-45), all in the Ki'migsbau, Munich ; Allegories illustrating Herder's Works (1840 48), Herder mom, Weimar ; Entombment, Leipsic Museum ; Dream of Hophronius, Magdalen at the Feet of the Saviour (1859); Circumcision of St. John. Allgem. d. Biogr., xiii. (549 ; Allgem. Zeitg., April 27, 1871, Beilage, 117 ; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1830), 54 ; D. Kunstbl. (1850), 328 ; (1851), 19 ; (1858), 291 ; Fi'.rster, v. 101 ; Kunst-Chronik, vi. 423. JAGER, KARL, born at Nuremberg in 1838. History painter, pupil of Reindel, Kreling, and Munich Academy. Professor at Nuremberg Art School. Works : Golden Age of Nuremberg ; Birth of Diirer ; Fair Rothtraut (1877); twelve portraits of Ger- man Kings ; Portrait of Director Esseuwein, Nuremberg Museum. Miiller, 279. JAHN, JOHANN QUIRIN, born in Prague, June 4, 1739, died there, July 20, 1802. History painter and writer on art ; son and pupil of Jacob Jahn (died in 1767), and for several years assistant of Palko in fresco and oil painting. Visited Holland, France, and Germany, and was made associ- ate of the Academy at Vienna. After his return to Prague in 1790 he painted altar- pieces for Bohemian and Schleswig churches. Works : S. Felippo Neri (1772), Church of St. Veit, Prague ; St. Stephen (1775), St. Ste- phen's, ib. ; masterly copy of Correggio's La Notte, Church at Liebesnitz. Allgem. d. Biogr., xiii. 080 ; Wurzbach, x. 47. JAIRUS, DAUGHTER OF (Mark, ch. v.), Gustav Jiichter, National Gallery, Berlin ; canvas, H. 11 ft. 10 in. x 9 f t. 5 in. ; signed, dated 1850. Christ, accompanied by three apostles, stands beside the bed of the maid- en, who raises her head and looks up to him, while the mother bends listening over her ; the father, standing behind the couch, has laid his hand on his child's pillow and looks in mute astonishment at the miracle. Jor- dan (1885), i. 102. JALABERT, CHARLES FRANCOIS, born at Nimes, Jan. 1, 1819. Genre and
- portrait painter, pupil of Paul Delaroche.
After competing for the prix de Rome three times without success, he spent three years in Italy, and returned with a picture which was bought by the State. His figures are well grouped, but not free from affectation. This is especially applicable to his religious pictures. Medals : 3d class, 1847 ; 2d class, 1851, 1807; 1st class, 1853, 1855; L. of Honor, 1855 ; Officer, 1807. Works : Virgil, Horace, and Varius at the House of Maecenas (1847), Luxembourg Museum ; St. Luke, Villanello (1852) ; Annunciation, Nymphs listening to Orpheus (1853); Christ on Mount of Olives (1855); Farewell of Ro- meo and Juliet, Raphael at work on the Ma- donna San Sisto (1857); A Widow (1801); Christ walking on the Sea, Maria Abruzze (1803); The Awakening (1872); CEdipus and Antigone, Nimes Museum ; Christian Mar- tyr, Italian Girl, Orpheus (1853); The Morn- 33U
