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 CROQUEMITA1NE (1870) ; Lake Nemi Italy (1879) ; Twilight, Old Church at Arreton Isle of Wight (1880); Sketching in the Glen, Eamapo Val- ley (1881) ; Autumn on the Hudson River (1882); Wawayanda Valley (1883); Spring- time in England (1884); Misty Morning on Greenwood Lake, Lake Thrasymene Italy (1884); October in Ramapo Valley (1885). Water-colours : On the St. Lawrence, Wick- ham Pond Florida (1884). Manhattan Mag., April, 1884. CROQUEMITAINE, BAGAGE DE, Tiui- oleon Lobrichon, canvas. Croquemitaiue is one of the legendary monsters with whose name nurses frighten children. The pict- ure represents a basket with four children packed ready for departure, and a fifth sit- ; ting beside it. Engraved by L. Massard. CROSS, DEPOSITION FROM. See De- scent from Cross. CROSS, DESCENT FROM See De- scent from Cross. CROSS, DISCOVERY OF, Oarofalo, Fer- i rara Gallery ; wood, H. 10 ft. 5 in. x 5 ft 11 in. The finding of the cross by St. Helena, ; mother of Constantino the Great. A rich i composition of figures with a landscape background ; above, a glory of angels. Painted in 1536 for S. Domenico, Ferrara. Vasari, ed. Mil., vi. 465. By Tintoretto, S. M. Mater Domini, Ven- ice. A carefully-painted and attractive pict- ure, but by no means a good specimen of the master, as far as regards power of con- ception. Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 312; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 212. CROSS, ELEVATION OF. See Eleva-' tion of Cross. CROSS, JOHN, born in Tiverton, Eug- ! land, in 1819, died in London, Feb. 26, 1861. History painter, pupil of Picot in Paris. His Clemency of Richard Cceur de Lion gained the first premium of 300 in the Westminster Hall competition in 1847, and was bought by the royal commissioners for 1,000; and his Assassination of Thomas a Becket (1843) is in Canterbury Cathedral. CROSS, MIRACLE OF, Gentile Bellini, Venice Academy ; canvas, H. 10 ft C in. x 13 ft. 9 in. ; signed, dated 1500. A relic of the true cross, borne in procession, is lost in the water while crossing a bridge ; many seek it in vain, but it is at last found by Doge Andrea Vendramiu ; Catherine Cornaro, ex- Queen of Cyprus, and her suite, are among the kneeling spectators on the left ; the fore- most one of the kneeling group in front, to right, is said to be the painter himself. From Scuola di S. Giovanni Evangelists. C. & C., N. Italy, i. 132 ; Zanotto, Pinac. Accad., PI. 40 ; Burckhardt, 594. By Giovanni Manxueli, Venice Academy ; canvas, H. 10 ft. in. x 15 ft The relic of the cross, carried in procession (1474) at the burial of one who had doubted its mi- raculous powers, is arrested by an invisible force, and its bearers have to procure an- other one from a neighbouring chapel Scene, a canal fringed by buildings and crossed by a drawbridge ; the spectator at left, with a scroll in his hand, is supposed to be the painter himself. Painted in 1493 for Scuola di S. Giov. Evaugelista. C. & C., N. Italy, L 220; Zanotto, Pinac. dell Accad. Venez., PI. 28 ; Burckhardt, 599. CROSS, PROCESSION OF, Gentile Bel- lini, Venice Academy ; canvas, H. 11 ft. 10 in. x 24 ft. 4 in. ; signed, dated 1496. The procession of the brethren of S. Giovanni Evangelista, bearing the relic of the cross, has issued from the portal between S. Marco and the Pal. Ducale, and is proceeding up the Piazza di S. Marco ; Giovanni Salis, a merchant of Brescia, kneels near the shrine of the relic, and by making a vow to the cross causes the healing of his son in Bres- cia. Painted for the Scuola di S. Giovanni Evangelista. The most important extant work of the Venetian school previous to the advent of Titian.-C. & C., N. Italy, L 129. CROSS, VISION OF. See Conntantine. CROWE, EYRE, born at Chelsea, Oct., 1824. Genre painter, pupil in Paris of Paul Delaroche, whom he accompanied to Rome in 1843 ; entered schools of Royal Academy, London, in 1844, and exhibited 363