1858. Landscape and history painter, son and pupil of Claude Antoine F., history and portrait painter of beginning of 19th century; later pupil of Hersent and Bertin. Subjects usually taken from central France. Medals: 3d class, 1841; 2d class, 1837; 1st class, 1845; L. of Honour, 1851. Works: Baptism of Christ, St. Marguérite, Paris; Saint Geneviève, St. Etienne du Mont, ib.; Ischia (1833); Environs of Maubeuge, View of Clermont, Hell's Hole, The Bridge of Arche (1840); Village of Cagnes (1845), formerly in Luxembourg Museum; Monte Calvo, near Nice, Mill of Coutivert (1847); The Grove, Pasture in Normandy, Environs of Trouville (1852), bought by the Emperor; View on Coast of Genoa, Orléans Museum; Landscape, Nantes Museum.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), i. 302.
FLICKEL, PAUL, born in Berlin, April
8, 1852. Landscape painter, pupil of Weimar
Art School under Theodor Hagen, went
in 1874 to Düsseldorf, and settled in 1876 in
Berlin; travelled in Germany and Austria,
and in 1877 in Italy. Works: Garden near
Naples; Villa d'Este; View of Naples from
Capo di Monte.—Müller, 178.
FLIGHT INTO EGYPT (Fr., Fuite en
Egypte; It., Fuga in Egitto; Sp., Huida á
Egipto; Ger., Flucht nach Egypten). The
flight of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph into
Egypt to escape the pursuit of Herod.
By Claude Lorrain, Dresden Museum; canvas, H. 3 ft. 3 in. × 4 ft. 4 in. The Virgin, with Jesus in her arms, is mounted upon an ass, which is preceded by an angel; behind, Joseph, leaning on his staff. The landscape, one of the most beautiful by the painter, has a cascade in the middleground, which forms a rivulet crossed by a bridge; in background, a city and mountains. Other figures, besides the Holy Family, are two travellers in antique costume, and a shepherd and shepherdess. From the Mazarin Collection. Another Flight into Egypt by Claude, engraved by Morel, is in the Ashburton Collection, London.
By Alexandre Decamps, private gallery, Paris; canvas, H. 9 in. × 1 ft. 1 in. The Holy Family about to cross a torrent at evening; an angel leads by the bridle the ass upon which the Virgin and Child are sitting. Salon, 1850; Pereire sale (1872), 15,150 francs.
By Edwin Long, London; canvas, H. 8 ft. × 16 ft. Called by the painter Anno Domini. The Holy Family in foreground, the Virgin and Child seated upon an ass, beside which walks Joseph; beyond, issuing from the gate of an Egyptian temple in background, at the left of which the Pyramids are seen, marches a procession—minstrels followed by bearers of the golden image of Isis, by priests, by a Roman officer in a chariot, and by the sacred bull Apis. In the foreground, near the Holy Family, are a young lover fastening an amulet around the neck of his betrothed, a negro carrying for sale a tray of Egyptian gods, and a mother holding in her arms a sick child, before whose unconscious face three girls and a negro girl-slave hold up images of the gods.
By Holman Hunt. See Triumph of the Innocents.
By Murillo, Duchesse de Galliera, Paris; canvas, H. 7 ft. × 5 ft. 6 in. The Virgin, mounted on an ass walking to right, tenderly regards the Child, who lies with his head on her right arm; St. Joseph, in broad-*brimmed hat and mantle, walks leading the animal: night scene—landscape of arid country with tree on left. First manner. Painted about 1648 for convent of La Merced Calzada, now the Seville Museum; carried off by Soult; sold at his sale for 51,500 fr.—C. Bermudez, ii. 59, Carta, 55; Ponz, Viage, ix. 107; Curtis, 167.
By Rubens, Louvre; wood, H. 2 ft. 6 in. × 3 ft. 3 in. Night scene, the stars and the moon reflected in the water of a river which the Holy Family are about to cross. Mary, holding Jesus in her arms, is seated upon an ass led by an angel, while a second angel flies at her right; Joseph, walking with his staff, turns and looks with anxiety at two
