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 GROS Battle of Aboukir (1800), Capitulation of Madrid, Battle of the Pyramid* (1810), In- terview between Napoleon and Emperor of Austria (1812), Louis XVIII. quitting the Tuileries in 1815 (1817), Charles X. at the Camp of Reims (1827), portraits of Massena and Duo do Belluuo, Eugene Beauharnais, King Jerome (1808), Marshal Duroe, Count Daru, General Count Fournier-Sarlovesc (1812), of himself, Versailles Museum ; L'm- barcation of Duchesso cVAngouleme (isl'.l), Bordeaux Museum ; Venus and Cupid (lls:!2 ), Hercules and Diomedes (18:!")), Portraits of himself and Madame Ciros, Toulouse Muse- um ; eleven miniatures, Montpellicr Muse- um ; Portrait of Marshal Duroe, Nancy Museum ; Portraits of Napoleon, King of Westphalia, King of Naples, Louis XVIII., Charles X., and many contemporary persons of note. Delestre, Gros, Vie et (Euvres ; Bellier dc la Chavignerie, i. 702 ; C'li. Blanc. cole franeaise ; Villot, Cat. Louvre ; Clus- inan ; Chesneau, Chefs d'Kcolc (Paris, 18SI5); Meyer, Gesck, 10!) ; Kunstblatt (1N:W), No. 71-73. GROS, LUCIEN ALPHONSE, born at Wesserling (Alsace) ; contemporary. Genre ])ainter, pupil of Meissonier ; his pictures an; well-drawn and characteristic. Medals : 18G7 ; 2d class, 187(5. Works : The Mis- eries of War (18713); The Arquebusier, Fish- ing with a Line, Cloister of St. Barthelemy at Nice (1874); Conspirators against Cardi- nal Mazarin, A Smoker, House of a Peasant near Nice (1875); Sitting for a Portrait (187C); Lying-in- Wait, The Critic (1878); The Blow with the Spur (1879); Pergolese in Vernet's Studio (1880); Two Philosophers, A Gentleman (1881); Maurice of Nassau (1884). GROSCLAUDE, LOUIS, born at Lode, Switzerland, Sept. 2(5, 1788, died in Paris, Deo. 11, 1800. Genre painter, pupil of Hegnault ; widely known through his agree- ably-composed and well-coloured pictures. Associate member of the Berlin Academy, 1H27. Medals : :id class, 18:i5 ; 2d class, ls:iS ; 1st class, LSI") ; 1st class at Geneva and Brussels. Works : The Drinkers (1S27); Soap Bubbles (1N:W); Toast to the Vintage of l!S:!4 (1S:{.">); Military Salute (1H:J7); The Little Breakfast (1SHS) ; Fortune-Teller (ls:i'.l); Three Gossips (1841); Marino Fali- ero (1S42), Drinker <1N40|, Ncuehatel Mu- seum ; Magdalen (184")), Collection of Duke of Treviso ; Nonua (1H1.">); Saint Cecilia (1S48); Reading the News of the Capture of the MalakotV, Two Little Friends (185!>); Interior of a Stable near Geneva (IfStiJ); Departure of the Enrolled (IsO'.l), Mus.'e Ratli, Geneva. Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 70:5. CiROSS, RICHARD, born in Munich in 1H48. Portrait and figure painter ; taken to America in childhood ; pupil of the Na tional Academy schools. New York, and studied in Munich. Bronze medal, Royal Academy, Bavaria. Studio in Munich (1SS2). Works : Savant ; Old Nuremberg : Lady of Shalott; Portrait of William Chambers, Lady of the 17th century (ls7!l); Initial Painter (1.SS2). GROSSE, FRAN/ THEODOR, Dresden, April 2:i, 182'.). History and portrait painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Bendemann, whom he assisted in the decoration of the Royal Palace, and then executed paintings in the Dresden Museum ; went in 1858 to Florence, and in 185!) to Rome, where he studied Raphael. After his return he decorated (1804-71) the Loggia of the Leipsic Museum ; became professor at the Dresden Academy in 1807. Works : Leda with the Swan (1852), Sketch for Curtain to