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Shipwrecked on Coast of Jutland; Italian Fishermen on Mediterranean; Harem in Constantinople (1875); Christian Martyrs in Catacombs at Rome.—Art Journal (1860), 168; (1871), 165; Illustr. Zeitg. (1881), ii. 103; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 160; Sigurd Müller, 168; W. Müller, Düsseldf. K. 313; Weilbach, 334; Wiegmann, 268.


JERICHO, BLIND MEN OF (Matt. xx.), Nicolas Poussin, Louvre; canvas, H. 3 ft. 11 in. × 5 ft. 9 in. At right, Christ, coming out of Jericho with Peter, James, and John, touches the eyes of one of the blind men kneeling before him; at Jesus's right, several men looking on in astonishment, and further on, a woman with a child in her arms; in back-ground, fine buildings, behind which rises a wooded mountain. Painted in 1651; Collection of Louis XIV. Engraved by L. Audran; G. Chasteau; E. Picart; F. Garnier; Mécon.—Cat. Louvre; Filhol, x. Pl. 655.

Blind Men of Jericho, Nicolas Poussin, Louvre.


JERNBERG, AUGUST, born in Stockholm, Sept. 16, 1826. Genre painter, pupil of Stockholm Academy. In 1851 studied and settled in Düsseldorf. After painting scenes from Swedish history, took up genre, especially village scenes, which he represents in a very realistic manner and with great humour. Paints also excellent still-life pieces. Works: Domestic Happiness, The Clarinettist, The Broken Pipe, Stockholm Museum; Kitchen Interior (1870); Preparations for the Festival (1874); Persuasion; Letter-Writer; First Walk to School; Bear at the Fair; Grandfather as Nurse; Harvest in Westphalia; Sunday Afternoon; Council Meeting, Market-Day in Düsseldorf. His son Olaf, a talented landscape painter, received medals in London in 1878-79.—Müller, 283.


JERNDORFF, AUGUST ANDREAS, born at Oldenburg, Jan. 24, 1846. History, landscape, and portrait painter, son of Just Ulrik Jerndorff (1806-47, landscape and portrait painter, court-painter at Oldenburg), pupil of his uncle Just Holm (born in 1815), of Christian Hetsch, of Copenhagen Academy, and of Skovgaard; visited Germany, Tyrol, and Venice in 1875, then went to Rome, and in 1878 to Paris. After his return he was entrusted with the restoration of Constantin Hansen's frescos in the University of Copenhagen. Medal, 1871. Honourable mention, Paris, 1878. Works: Street in Country Town (1866); Episode in Exodus of Israelites (1871); Cain before the Lord after the Death of Abel (1871), Aarhus Museum; Christ and the Children (1873); View of Roskilde Fjord, Shore of a Creek (1874); The Deluge (1877); Sunset in Venice (1879); Christ among the Roman Soldiers (1880); Summer Landscape (1881); Triptych with Christ before the High Priest (1883).—Sigurd Müller, 180.


JEROME, ST., Lorenzo Lotto, Louvre; wood, H. 1 ft. 11 in. × 1 ft. 4 in.; signed, dated 1500. The Saint, kneeling in a rocky landscape, strikes his breast with one hand while holding a crucifix in the other; at