Page:Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, 1887, vol 3.djvu/235

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MAREC cliio, but Zanetti thinks him more probably a disciple of Giovanni Bellini. He was an agree- able colourist and a fair designer. Among his works in Venice are a Descent from the Cross, and Christ between SS. Peter and John, Academy ; Woman taken in Adultery, S. Giorgio Mnggiorc ; and Christ between SS. Peter and Andrew, S. Giovanni e Paolo. The Woman taken in Adultery, Palazzo Cor- sini, Borne, attributed to Titian, is by Mar- coni (C. & C.) ; same subject in Berlin Museum, and Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Ch. Blanc, Ecole veuitienue ; Burckhardt, 725. MAKEC, VICTOR, born in Paris; contem- porary. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Jean Paul Laureus. Medal, 3d class, 1885 ; 2d class, and prix du Salon, 1880. Works : The Little Patient (1885) ; Morn- ing after Pay-Day (188(5). MARECHAL, CHARLES LAURENT, born at Metz in Feb., 1801. Genre painter, pupil of Regnault. Usually painted in wa- ter colour or on porcelain and glass. Has had many pupils. Medals : 3d class, 1840 ; 2d class, 1841 ; 1st class, 182G, 1842, and 1855 ; L. of Honour, 184G ; Officer, 1855. Works : Job (182G) ; Washerwomen, Ravine, Harvest (1835) ; Sisters of Mercy, Hunga- rian Woodsmen (1840); Little Gitano, Little Student, Study of Heads (1841) ; Masaccio as a Child, Pfeiffer House (1841) ; The Clus- ter, Herodias (1845) ; Lawyer, St. Clotilde, St. Valeria (1853) ; Priest, Student, Galileo in Velletri (1855) ; Columbus brought back from the New World (1857) ; Young Girl, Sisters of Misery, Shepherds, Portrait of Marshal Ney, Metz Museum. Has executed decorative works in the Ministry of State and in the New Louvre. His son and pupil, Charles Raphael, is also a genre painter ; Medal, 2d class, 1853. Bellier, ii. 28 ; La- rousse. MAREES, GEORG DE, born at Stock- holm in 1697, died in Munich in 177G. Portrait painter, pupil of Peter Martin Mey- tens, whom he assisted fourteen years, dur- ing which time he also painted the royal family of Sweden, and the senators. He went in 1724 to Amsterdam, then to Nurem- berg, where he studied at the Preussler Academy, and won the friendship of Kupetz- ky ; thence to Rome via Munich, Innsbruck, Padua, and Venice, where he painted minia- tures, and completed his studies under Pi- azetta ; after a short stay at Augsburg, set- tled in Munich, where lie became court- painter, and painted more than fifty portraits of Bavarian Princes. Works: Portrait of himself at the Easel, do. of a Physician, Portraits of the Painters Albrecht and Beich, do. of Bavarian Princes and Princesses (31), Sclileissheim Gallery. Nagler, iii. 3GO. MARES, PIERRE DES, a Burgundian painter, who flourished in the beginning of the IGth century. His stylo resembles that of the master of the Holy Kith-and-Kiu. Works : Crucifixion (1517), St. Maurice re- fusing to sacrifice to an Idol, Beheading of St. Maurice, Old Pinakothek, Munich. MARESCALCO, IL. See lhwiu.-oim<jlio, ! Giovanni. MARGARET, ST., Raphael, Louvre; wood, transferred to canvas, H. 5 ft. 10 in. x 4 ft. St. Margaret, standing and holding a palm, has one foot on the monster 1 , which lies, with open mouth, upon its back. Paint- ed about 1518, probably for Francis I. or for his sister Marguerite de Valois, and ac- cording to Vasari, almost entirely by Giulio Romano from Raphael's design. Cleaned by Primaticcio in 1530 ; again in 1G85, and later much damaged by restoration. En- ! graved by P. Thomassin (1589) from a poor | copy ; also by G. Rousselet ; L. Surugue ; Desuoyers. Vasari, ed. Mil., v. 525 ; Cab. Crozat, i. PI. 7 ; Landon, Musee, iv. PI. 21 ; Gruyer, Vierges de Raphael, iii. 590 ; Passa- vant, ii. 2GO. By liaphael (?), Vienna Museum ; wood, H. 5 ft. 4 in. x 4 ft. 1 in. A repetition of the St. Margaret in the Louvre, excepting that the Saint holds a cross in her hand in- stead of a palm, and looks at the dragon 1 instead of at the spectator. Probably by Giulio Romano after a drawing by Raphael. 196