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 EYLAT Child (1837), Lisieux Museum ; Entomb- ment (1837), Liege Museum ; Divine Mercy (1839) ; Ransom of Captive Christians (1840), St. Boniface imploring the Virgin (1841), glisc de la Chapellc, Brussels ; Descent from the Cross (1841), Eglise de Thourout, ib. ; Entombment, St. Andrew's, ib. ; Christ be- wailing Jerusalem (1844), Vatican, Rome ; Prisoner's Wife, St. Cecilia's last Song, Abun- dance, Revery (1848) ; Falling Leaves ( 184!i) : Studio Scene, National Museum, Amster- dam ; Fourteen Scenes in Christ's Passion (1851), figlise de la Chapelle, Brussels. Biog. nat. de Belgique, vi. 804 ; Immcr/cel, i. 230 ; Kramni, ii. 4(!(>. EYLAU, BATTLEFIELD OF, Antoinc Jean (!r<>.<, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 17 ft. (i in. x 2G ft. 4 in. ; signed, dated 18(18. Na- poleon visiting the battlefield of Eylau (Feb. !), 1807), before reviewing his troops. Near the centre, the Emperor, in a pelisse of gray satin bordered with fur, raises his hand with a gesture indicating grief at the sight of the dead and wounded around him. Among his staff arc, at right, Soult, Davoust, and Mu- rat ; at left, Berthier, Bessieres, and Cau- laincourt. Kneeling Lithuanians implore his pity. In background, Eylau in flames, lines of French troops with prisoners defil- ing before them, and the dead on the bat- tlefield partly hidden by snow. Salon, 180S. Gros received 1(!,0"0 fr. Engraved by Val- lot, Oortman. Villot, Cat. Louvre. EZDORF (Etzdorf), CHRISTIAN (JO- HAN N CHRISTLYN MICHAEL), born at Posneck, Meiniugen, Feb. 28, 1801, died in Munich Dec. 18, 1851. Landscape painter, pupil of Munich Academy. Trav- elled extensively, both on the Continent and in England. Studied Ruysdael and Evcr- dingen, and loved to paint Nature in her more sombre aspects. He was appointed court-painter to the Duke of Saxe-Mein- ingen, and member of Stockholm Academy. Works: Waterfall with Mill (1830); Land- scape with Castle in Park (1H37); Iron Works by Waterfall (1840), New Piuako- thek, Munich ; Storm (1841) ; Huntsman by Beech Trees (1842); Karlssteg in Ziller Val- ley (1850); Fisherman's Hut on Lake, Laud- scape with Bathing Girls. Andresen, iv. 249 ; Brockhaus, vi. 407 ; Nagler, Mon., i. E/.EKIEL, .lUi-lii-huKjflo, Sistiuc Chapel, Rome ; fresco on ceiling. E/EKIEL, VISION OF, /!{,//, Pala//o I'itti, Florence; wood, H. 1 ft. 4 in. 1 ft. lehovah, in a glory of light and of seraphim, seated like Olympian Jove upon an eagle, Vision of Ezekiel, Raphael, Palazzo Pitti, Florence. the symbol of St. John, with a winged lion and bull, symbols of SS. Mark and Luke, beneath him, and the angel, symbolic of St. Matthew, beside him, extends his arms, up- held by two angels, to bless the world, seen at an immeasurable depth below ; through the clouds a ray of light falls on E/.ekiel and his steed in the distance. Painted about 1 1517 for Count Vincenzo Ercolani of Ik>- i logna. Carried to Paris in 1799 ; returned 1 in 1815. Copy formerly in De Launay, then in Orleans Collection, sold to Lord Berwick ' for 800; now at Strattou, seat of Sir Thomas