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NATOIKE Stacltholclcr, Prince Frederic Henry ; for- merly in Diisseldorf Gallery. Engraved by Hess. Vosmaer, 201, 47;} ; Smith, vii. 24. By Girolamo Eomanino, National Gallery, London ; wood, altarpicce in five compart- ments, centre, H. 8 ft. 7 in. x 3 ft. 9 in. | Jesus, lying on a white clotli on a knoll, is adored by the kneeling Virgin ; Joseph i leans on his staff, and two boy angels hover ' in the air. On sides, SS. Filippo Benizzio ] and Gaudioso above, and SS. Alexander and Jerome below. Painted in 1525 for S. Ales- sandro, Brescia, whence taken by one of the Counts Avveroldi ; bought of Counts Angelo and Ettore Avveroldi in 1857 for ,C8(U. Piidolti, Maraviglie, i. 351 ; C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 387 ; Richter, 95, 10(1 By Titian, formerly in S. Marco, Venice. Painted about 15G3 ; destroyed by fire from a candle on the altar, after morning mass, Jan. 19, 1580. C. A: C!., Titian, ii. 337. NATOIEE, CHARLES JOSEPH, born at Ximes, March 3, 1700, died at Castel Gandolfo, A* .=.. J**Ll Aug. 29, 1777. French school ; history painter, pupil ofGalloche and Lorn oy ne. -Won the grand prix de Koine in I 1721, and later in Home the 1st prize of the Academy of St. Luke. Became member of the Acadcmv (1734), professor (1737), director of the French Academy at Rome (1751), which post he resigned in 1774. Works : Manoah offering Sacrifice to the Lord (1721), Kcole des Beaux Arts, Paris ; Moses with the Dec- alogue ; Venus asking Arms of Vulcan (1734), Three Graces, Juno, Triumph of Bacchus, Louvre, Paris ; Youth and Virtue presenting two Princesses to France, Dau- phin Louis de France (2), Versailles Muse- um ; Allegory on Birth of a Princess, Dau- phin Louis (son of Louis XV.), Telemachus on the Islo of Calypso, Bacchus and Ariadne, Palais de Trianon ; Sancho's Repast in the Woods, and eight other scenes from Don Quixote, Hagar in the Desert, Flora, Com- piegue Museum ; Venus and Vulcan, Venus and ^Eneas, Bordeaux Museum ; Magdalen, Dijon Museum ; Christ on the Cross, St. Jerome, Cleopatra at Tarsus, Marseilles Mu- seum ; Venus asking Arms of Vulcan, Mout- pollier Museum ; Death of Dido, Nantes Museum ; Solemn Entry into Orleans of Monseigneur Nicolas Joseph do Paris in 1733 (1745), Bishop's Palace, Orleans ; Sketch of same (1743), Portrait of Mousei- gneur de Paris (174G), useum, ib.; St. Ste- phen preaching the Gospel, Renues Mu- seum ; Warrior of Middle Ages, Rouen Museum ; Mercury and Cupid, Telemachus and Mentor, France accompanied by Power and Fame, Cupid scattering Flowers, Cupid and the Nymph Eucharis, Jupiter and lo, Perseus delivering Andromeda, Danae and Jupiter, Ganymede carried off by Jupiter's Eagle, Troves Museum ; Goddess with At- tributes of Venus, Flora and Leda, Valen- ciennes Museum ; Bacchus and Ariadne, Hermitage, St. 'ortrait of himself, Uffizi, Florence. Bellier, ii. 150 ; Jal, 9G7 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole fran<;aise ; Villot, Cat. Louvre. NATTIER, JEAN MARC, born in Paris, March 17, 1G85, died there, Nov. 7, 17G6. French school ; history and portrait painter, son and pupil of Marc Nattier (1642-1705). Won the first prize of the Academy in 1700. Was employed to copy the Rubens pictures in the Luxembourg to be engraved. Mem- ber Academy in 1718, adjunct professor in 174G, and professor in 1752. In 1715 he painted, at Amsterdam, Peter the Great, his wife Catharine I., and many of his courtiers; also a picture of the Battle of Pultowa, for the Czar. Associate member of the Copen- hagen Academy. Works : Magdalen in a Grotto, Louvre ; Marie Leczinska, Madame Henrietta de France (1751, 1754), Madame Adelaide, do. (1756), Madame Victoire (2), 330