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 GRANDI, EliCOLE DI GIULIO, born in Ferrara about 14(!2, died there, .lulv, 1531. Lombard school. Called also Ercole da Ferrara. Son of Giulio Cesare Grandi; was in the service of the Duke of Ferrara in 14JI2 !)'J. He was a disciple of Costa, or rather of Francia as represented by Costa, in his later period. Among his typical works may be cited the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian in S. Paolo, Ferrara, and the St. George and the Dragon in the Corsini Gal- lerv, Rom c ; n Conversion of / / St. Paul, Na- L tional Gallery, / /, London. C. & C., N. Italy, i. 531, 550 ; *Cit- tadella, Notizie di Ferrara, 422 ; Vasari, ed. Mil, iii. 141 ; ed. Le Mon., iv. 247 ; Biuvk- hardt, 582. GRANDI, ERCOLE DI ROBERTO, died in Ferrara before 1513. Lombard school. Called also Ercole da Ferrara or Ferrarese. Son of Roberto Grandi, and partner of his brother as a painter and gold-beater in Fer- rara in 1471). Salaried by the Duke of Fer- rara, by whom he was frequently employed; finished a view of Naples in 1490-1)3 ; and painted in 1494 the likeness of Hercules I. for Isabella of Mantua. Vasari, who con- founds him with Ercole the disciple of Costa, ascribes to him the frescos in the Garganelli Chapel of S. Pietro, now destroyed. His Capture and Procession to Golgotha in the Dresden Museum (the centre-piece, belong- ing to these, a Pieta, is in the Royal Insti- tution at Liverpool) show that he was a close follower of Mantegna rather than of Costa. In similar style are : Christ on the Mount, Ravenna Gallery ; Crucified Saviour, Museo Civico, Venice ; and the Lucretia, Modena Gallery.--C. & C., N. Italy, i. 530 ; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iv. 247; ed. Mil., iii. 141; Cittadella, Notizie di Ferrara, 583; Burckhardt, 582. GRANDSIRE, EUGENE, bom at Or- leans, March 18, 1825. Landscape painter, pupil of J. Noel and Jules Dupre. Tcachei of drawing in the Kcole drs Artset Mi-tiers, Paris. L. of Honour, 1H74. Works : Pont du Moulin (18(i5), Orleans Museum ; The Brook (l.S(ili), Nantes Museum ; River Meurthe (1874); Mill of Simoncau. Road to Fountain of St. Guinole (1877) ; View near Gratain, Pasture in Sologne (18~S) ; Valley of Plainfaing (18711) ; Valley of Baiim, River Meurthe (188(1) ; Port of Dieppe, Canal at Tivport (1881 ), Luxembourg Museum ; Val ley of the Bagnerot in November (1882) ; The Campinc at Antwerp, Dieppe (1HSU); Kattendyk at Antwerp, Canal at. Antwerp (1884) ; Sunrise, Sunset Antwerp (1885). Bellier de la Chavigneric, i. (iS7. Gl JANET, FRANrolS-MAUirs, born in Aix, Provence, Dec. 17, 1775, died there, Nov. 21, 1811). Archi- tecture painter, first instructed by an unknown Italian, then by the landscape painter Constan- tin, and after- wards by David in Paris, to Rome, where he spent, the greater part of his life and painted most of his pictures. They were chiefly interiors of churches, monasteries, etc., with historical scenes. Returned to Paris in 1811), made custodian of the paintings of the Louvre in 1821!, and member of the Institute in 18:!. After the revolution of 1848 he retired to Aix, and bequeathed to his native city his fortune and all his pictures to found a museum. Medal, 1808; L. of Honour, 181!) ; Officer, 1833 ; Order of St. Michael, 182(5. Works : Interior of the Coliseum (180(!), The Painter Sodoma carried to the Hospital (1815), In- terior of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assist (1823), Ransom of Prisoners in Algiers (1831), Portrait of Himself, Louvre, Paris ; Funeral Honours to the Victims of Fieschi's Infernal Machine (1839), Invalides, ib. ; In 1802 he went 187