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 CYCLOPS Portrait, Stiidel Gallery, Frankfort His nephew, Benjamin Cuyp (1608-about 1690), painted historical subjects and genre. Kugler (Crowe), ii. 354; Doh m e, lii.; Vossmaer, 405. CYCLOPS, MODERN, Adolf Mmzel, No- thing. One day, in passing through a wood, he discovered o most beautiful damsel asleep, with two maids and a man-servant also sleeping at her feet. At this sight love pierced his heart, and led to such a change in his character that in four years he became the most accomplished gentleman in Cyprus, and, after various adventures, wooed and won Iphigenia for his wife. Royal Acade- my, 1884 Art Journal (1884), 129. By Sir Joshua lli-ynoltl*, Buckingliam Pal- ace, London ; canvas, H. 4 ft. 7 in. x 5 ft. tional Gallery, Berlin ; canvas, H. 5 ft. x 8 7 in. Iphigenia, nearly nude, lies asleep on ft. 3 in.; signed, dated 1875. Scene in a drapery in the wood; in background, Cyrnon, rolling-mill at Laurahiltte, Silesia. Five led by Cupid, leans upon a staff gazing upon workmen are busy around a loop placed on her in wonder-stricken admiration. Painted the first roller ; in middle- ground, machinery and cranes, with many work- men ; in background, left, a blast furnace and more workmen ; in foreground, right, three workmen eat- ing their meal, brought by a young girl. CYDIAS, Greek painter of Cythnus, about 364 B.C. His picture of the Argo- nauts was bought for 144,- 000 sesterces by the orator Hortensius, who had a building erected for it on his estate at Tusculum. (Pliny, xxxv. 40 [130].) This painting is supposed to have been removed by Agrippa to the Portico of Neptune. (Di. Cass. L. iii. 27.) Cydias is mentioned by Theophrnstus (De Lap. 95) as the discoverer of minium (red lead, or ver- milion). CYMON AND IPHIGENIA, Sir Frederic Leiyhton, Fine Arts Society, London. Scene from Boccaccio's Decameron, Novel L, Fifth Day. Cymon, son of Aristippus, a gentleman Cymon and Iphigenia, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Buckingham Palace, London, in 1789. Presented to George IV. by the painter's niece, the Marchioness of Tho- mond. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds. Waagen, Treasures, ii. 24. Subject treated also by Cornelis Conie- liszen, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Rubens, Vienna Museum. CZACHORSKI, VLADISLAV VON, of wealth and rank in Cyprus, though excel- born at Lublin, Poland, Sept. 22, 1850. ling in stature and comeliness, was almost Genre painter ; studied first in Lublin and a natural fool, and could not b taught any- ! Warsaw, then at Dresden Academy under 361