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 GIGNOUX kill Clove, Twilight (185!)) ; Bivouac of the 7th Regiment at Arlington Heights (1861) ; Shrewsbury River (1808) ; San Giorgio (1869) ; Fishing-Boats oil the Adriatic, Charles Stewart Smith, New York ; Pallanza, Tivoli (1870); S. M. cli Salute Venice, R. C. Tuft, Providence ; Lago Maggiore, It. L. Stew- art, New York ; Monte Ferro(1871); <!<>M<;iiH<.mi (1872); Venetian Sails (1874), J. J. Astor, New York ; Pallauza Lago Maggiore, T. B. Clarke, ib. ; Castle of Chillon, Samuel Hawk Collection, ib. ; October in the Catskills, J. P. Morgan, ib. ; Luke, Mountains of Vermont, M. K. Jesup, ib. ; Autumnal Scene, Marine anil City, J. C. Coale, Baltimore ; View in Venice, H. B. Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland ; Mansfield Mountain Vermont, Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia ; At Beni-Hassan, Near Paler- mo (187G) ; Leander's Tower, Sunset on the Hudson, Fire Island Beach (1877); Sunset Bay of New York (1878) ; Villa Malta- Rome, Claversack Creek, Sea-shore, looking Eastward at Sunset (1879) ; Ruins of the J'url/n'iiun (1880), Corcoran Gallery, Wash- ington ; Sunrise on the Matterhorn (1880). Am. Art. Rev. (1880), 851 ; Kunst-Chrou- ik, xvi. '25. GIGNOUX, REGIS, born in Lyons in 181(i, died in 1882. Landscape painter, lirst instructed at Freiburg, Breisgau, then pupil of Lj'ons Academy, and in Paris of the Ecole des Beaux Arts and of Delaroche ; went to America in 1844, became member of the National Academy in New York in 1851, and returned to France in 1870. Works : Bernese Alps by Sunrise, Indian Summer in Virginia, Niagara in Winter ; Four Seasons in America, Baron Rothschild, Paris ; Dis- mal Swamp ; Mount Washington, Mrs. A. T. Stewart, New York ; Niagara by Moon- light, August Belmout, ib. ; Mammoth Cave, Historical Society, ib.; Winter Scene, Cor- coran Gallery, Washington ; Moonlight on the Sagueuay (Johnston Sale, New York, 1876); Spring. Milller, 205 ; Tuckerman. GIGOUX, JEAN FRANCOIS, born in Besaneon, Jan. 8, 1806. History and genre painter, pupil of the Ecole des Beaux Arts. A skilful painter, and a good lithogra- pher. Medals : 2d class, 1833 ; 1st class, 1835 and 1848 ; L. of Honour, 1842 ; officer, 1880. Works : Henry IV. writing Verses in the Missal of Gabrielle d'Estrees (1833) ; Mine. Dubarry Dressing ; A Good Advent- ure ; Count Comminges recognized by his Mistress ; Death of Leonardo da Vinci (1835), Besanyon Museum ; Anthony and Cleopatra after the Battle of Actium ; He- loi'se receiving the Remains of Abelard ; Magdalen, bought by State ; St. Genevieve ; St. Philip healing a Sick Man ; Baptism of Clovis (1844), ordered by State ; Nativity (do.) ; Death of Mauon Lescaut ; Death of Cleopatra (1850), Good Samaritan (1857), Portrait of Fourier, Luxembourg Museum ; Charlotte Corday (1848) ; Galatea (1852) ; The Vintage (1853) ; The Eve of Austerlitz (1857), Besaneon Museum ; An Arrest dur- ing the Terror (1859) ; Head of Sarassin (1861) ; Poetry of Southern France (1866) ; First Meditation (1867) ; Magdalen (1870) ; The Fisherman and the Little Fish (1872) ; Father Lacour (1875) ; A Boy (1876) ; Youth of Do Ruyter (1877) ; Fountain of Youth, Magdalen in the Desert (1878) ; Beauty Asleep in the Woods (1879) ; In the Desert, Martha (1880) ; A Luxurious Man (1883) ; Capture of Ghent, Portrait of Charles VHL, Versailles Museum. He has also executed the decorations of a chapel in Saint Gervais, Paris, and religious pictures for St. Germain 1'Auxerrois, St. Merri, and St. Protais. Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 646 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1864), xvi. 168 ; Meyer, Gesch., 286 ; Mnller, 205. GILBERT, Sir JOHN, born at Black- heath, Kent, in 1817. History and portrait painter, self-taught, excepting a few lessons from George Lance ; began as an illustrator for newspapers and books ; exhibited first 130