Page:Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, 1887, vol 3.djvu/233

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MAKC especial merits. His design and colouring are generally pleasing, but his handling is weak and his feeling superficial. He was a close imitator of Guido Reui. Works : Ma- donna, Palazzo Doria, Rome ; Annunciation, The Virgin, Turin Gallery ; Adoration of the Shepherds, Basle Museum ; Magdalen in Meditation, Musee Rath, Geneva ; Ma- donna (2), The Virgin contemplating the Infant Christ, Dresden Museum ; Christ on Mount of Olives, Fiirstenberg Gallery, Do- naueschingen ; St. John in Patmos (1C98), Sleeping Child, Portrait of a Cardinal, Old Piuakothek, Munich ; The Virgin with the Child in the Cradle, Allegory on Vanity, Wood Nymph Bathing, Madonna, Children by Vase with Flowers, Schleissheim Gal- lery ; Holy Family, Weimar Museum ; Death of St. Joseph (1(576), Presentation in the Temple, Holy Family (1704), The Trin- ity, Museum, Vienna ; Bathsheba, Liechten- stein Gallery, ib.; Repose in Egypt, Harrach Gallery, ib.; Holy Family ('2), Czernin Gal- lery, ib. ; Adoration of the Shepherds, Ho- ly Family, Annunciation, Portrait of Popo Clement IX., several others, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Madonna in Glory, Hagar and Ishmael, Madrid Museum ; Apollo pursuing Daphne, Madonna, Brussels Museum ; Por- trait of a Cardinal, National Gallery, Lon- don. Vasari, ed. Le Mon., viii. 40, 45 ; Burckhardt, 170, 661, 670, 764, 768. MARC, (JEAN) AUGUSTE, born at Metz, July 12, 1818, died at Suresnes (Seine), May, 1886. History and genre painter, pupil of Drollin" 1 , of Delaroche, and of the Ecole des O* Beaux Arts. L. of Honour in 1868, when he also became director of LTllustration, of which he was then one of the most esteemed contributors. Works: Soap-bubbles (1848); Allegorical Figure of France (1855), Metz Museum ; Assassination of Due de Guise, 1563 (1857); Mozart playing the Violin; Eve Asleep ; Sultana at the Bath ; Christ in ' the Prsctorium, Cathedral of Mexico. Bel- lier, ii. 25 ; Chrouique des Arts (188<>), 165. MARC, WILHELM, born at Landshut, Bavaria, Oct. 9, 1839. Genre painter, pupil i of Munich Academy and of Erich Correns ; has repeatedly visited Italy ; paints in the manner of the old Venetian and Dutch mas- ters. Works : Decameron ; Housewife ; Concert ; Aphrodite ; Alpine Shepherdess ; City and Country (1874) ; Children in Vil- lage Churchyard, Venus Anadyomene (187G); Evening in Convent Garden ; Recess in Boarding-School ; Morning Prayer ; A Ques- tion (1883) ; Procession at Wackersberg, Music at Eve on the Alp (Jubilee Exhi- bition, Berlin, 1886). Miiller, 352 ; Ulustr. j Zeitg. (1879), ii. 548 ; Kuust-Chrouik, xviii. ! 213 ; xx. 745. MARCEAU, DEATH-BED OF, Jean Paul Laurent-; M. Turquet, Paris; canvas, H. 8 ft. x 10 ft. Francois Si'verin des Gra- viers Marceau, division commander in the French army, was mortally wounded near Alteukirchen, Rhenish Prussia, Sept. 20, 1796 ; and was carried within the Austrian lines, where he died three days later, uni- versally regretted, even by his enemies. The picture represents his body in full uni- i form upon his death-bed, surrounded by several French officers at left and the Aus- trian staff-officers at right. Salon, 1877 ; exhibited in New York, 1886. MARCELLIS. See Marseii*. MARCELLO, NICCOLO, portrait of Doge, Titian, Vatican ; canvas, H. 4 ft. 11 in. x 2 ft. 11 in. Painted about 1508. From Aldrovandi Collection, Bologna. C. & C., Titian, i. 112. MARCH, ESTEF5AN, born in Valencia about 1590, died there in 1660. Spanish school ; pupil of Pedro Orrente, from whom he learned to colour * 4 in the Venetian man- /V- * *-^9 ner. Painted prin- t f < Q *~ ' cipally battle scenes J and coarse subjects, but sometimes also re- ligious compositions. Most of his pictures 193