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 DEXKETTLIK traits of Old and Middle-Aged Man, Berlin Museum ; Seven Portraits, Brunswick Mu- seum; Six Portraits and St. Jerome, Dres- den Gallery ; Portraits of Old Man and Old Woman, Old Pinakothek, Munich; do. (1721 and 1726), Vienna Museum ; Portrait of Old Woman (1724), Louvre ; Others in Stutt- gart, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Christiania, and Florence Galleries. Allgem. d. Biogr., v. 54 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole allemande ; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 563 ; Larousse, vi. 441. DENNEULIN, JULES, born at Lille (Nord) in 1835. Genre painter, pupil of Colas. Medal, 3d class, 1875. Works: Triste Eecette (1875); Best of Hunters (1876); Wedding Dinner (1877); Beading the Will, Difficult Passage (1878); Amateur Quartette, Mayor's Burial (1879); Benedic- tion, Rural Postman (1880); Return from a Meeting, A Shower (1881); Worm Gather- ers (1882); Return from Fishing (1883); In- terrupted Wedding, A Reprobate (1884); False Arrest, Fisherman (1885). DENTONE, IL, born in Bologna in 1576, died there, Dec. 18, 1C32. Bologuese school. Real name Girolamo Curti ; called Dentone from the deformity of his teeth. Pupil of Lionello Spada and C. Baglioni. Worked as a common weaver until twenty- five years old, when he began to study de- sign, and soon made himself one of the foremost decorative painters of his time. Executed works in many palaces and churches in Bologna, Parma, and Modena. He excelled in chiaroscuro, but could not paint figures, and was aided in this depart- ment by Massari, Guercino, and Guido. Malvasia, ii. 105 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole bolo- uaise. DENYS, FRANS, born in Antwerp about 1610, died after 1655. Flemish school ; ex- cellent portrait painter, showing the influ- ence of Van Dyck. Free of the guild of Antwerp in 1631 ; left Flanders about 1655. Works : Portraits of Pieter van Home and Wife (1637); do. of Andries van Langen- berghe and Wife (1635); Portrait of F. P. van Broeckhoven (1652), Versailles Museum. He is usually confounded with his mediocre son Jacques (born 1644), who was master in 1664 and dean of the guild in 1693 ; two of his works in Antwerp Museum. Biog. nat. de Belgique, v. 602 ; Cat. du Musee d'An- vers (1874), 115. DEPOSITION FROM THE CROSS. See Descent from the Cross. DERBY DAY, William P. Frith, National Gallery, London ; canvas, H. 3 ft. 3 in. x 7 ft. 3 in. Scene on the race-course at Ep- som, 1856 ; many figures. Royal Academy, 1858. Bequeathed by Jacob Bell in 1859. Engraved by August Blanchard. Art Jour- nal (1865), 194. DESBROSSES, JEAN, born in Paris, May 28, 1835. Landscape painter, pupil of Ary Scheffer and Chintreuil. Medal, 3d class, 1882. Works: In the Mountains (1880); Lake of Chambon, The Gorges of Chaix (1881); Ascent of the little St. Ber- nard, Monistrol d'Allier (1882); Lac d'An- necy, Val de Pralognan (1883); Aiguilles de Warens at Sallanches, Mont Blanc Valley of Sallanches (1884); Mont Cervin, Val d'H- lers (1885). DESCAMPS, JEAN BAPMSTE, born at Dunkirk, Aug. 28, 1706, died at Rouen, July 14, 1791. French school ; history painter, pupil of his maternal uncle, Louis Coypel, and of Largilliere. Painted for Louis XV. several pictures illustrating his coronation and his visit to Havre ; became member of the Academy in 1764 ; settled in Rouen, where he established a school of design, of which he was professor and director. Pub- lished " Vie des Peintres flamands, alle- mands, et hollandais " (1755-63), and "Voy- age pittoresque de la Flandre et du Bra- bant " (1769). His best known picture, A Mother in her Kitchen with Two Children (1764), is in the Louvre ; Episodes (5) in History of Dunkirk, Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Museum, Dunkirk ; France restor- ing City of Dunkirk, Hotel de Ville, ib.; Ar- tist's portrait, Rouen Museum. Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 415 ; Michiels, x. 89 ; Vil- lot, Cai Louvre. sat