College Gallery; canvas, H. 7 ft. × 6 ft. Jeremiah, full-length, seated in the court of the prison, dictating his prophecy of the fall of Jerusalem to Baruch the Scribe, who sits at his feet (Jer. i. 17, 18). Painted about 1820; belonged to Miss Gibbs, of Newport, of whom bought for $7,000 by Professor Morse and presented to Yale College.
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Jeremiah, Washington Allston, Yale College Gallery.
By Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, Rome; fresco on ceiling.
JEREMIAH AT THE FALL OF JERUSALEM,
Eduard Bendemann, National Gallery,
Berlin; canvas, H. 13 ft. 7 in. × 16 ft.
9 in. Signed and dated, Düsseldorf, 1872.
In the foreground the prophet in speechless
grief sitting among the ruins; at his side,
Baruch, kneeling in prayer; at right, a group
of despairing women and children from
whom a Babylonian warrior has snatched a
bag; in the middle, Nebuchadnezzar in royal
attire upon his chariot accompanied by female
satellites, preceded by the army laden
with booty; behind him, the blind king
Zedekiah, feeling his way with his staff, surrounded
by women and followed by priests
with the ark of the covenant; in the background,
left, the smoking ruins of the temple.—Jordan
(1885), i. 11.
JERICHAU, HARALD (ADOLF NIKOLAJ),
born in Copenhagen, Aug. 17, 1852,
died in Rome, March 6, 1878. Landscape
painter, son of the sculptor Jens Adolf and
of Elizabeth Jerichau; pupil of his mother,
then in Rome of Bénouville, but studied
chiefly from nature, travelling in Switzerland,
Greece, Turkey, and Asia Minor.
Works: Ponte Molle, View from Velletri
(1870); Coast of Sorrento; Caravan of Sardes,
Copenhagen Gallery; The Acropolis at
Athens, Greek Convent on Isle of Paros
(1874).—Illustr. Tidende (1878), No. 971;
Weilbach, 330; Sigurd Müller, 178.
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JERICHAU-BAUMANN, ELISABETH,
born in Warsaw, Nov.
21, 1819, died in Copenhagen,
July 11,
1881. Genre painter,
pupil in Düsseldorf of
Karl Sohn and Stilke;
went in 1845 to Rome,
where she married
the Danish sculptor
Jerichau, whom she
accompanied to Copenhagen.
In 1852 she visited England,
France, and Russia, and afterwards Rome,
Greece, Constantinople, Asia Minor, and
Egypt. Member of Copenhagen Academy,
1861. Works: Young Bride going to Church
(1840), Polish Mother with Children leaving
their Destroyed Home (1844), Raczynski
Gallery, Berlin; Polish Peasant Family returning
to Ruins of Burnt House (1844),
Lord Lansdowne, London; Girls at the
Well in Ariccia (1845); Portrait of her Husband
(1846), Copenhagen Gallery; Peasant
Girl reading Bible, Girl playing with Sheep,
Carnival Scenes, Home Devotion, Allegory
of Denmark (1847); Stranded; Orphans;
Finis Poloniæ; Danish Fisherman; Icelandic
Girl (1852), Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Wounded Soldier nursed by his Betrothed
(1866), Copenhagen Gallery; Portraits of
the Brothers Grimm; Hans Christian An-
