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 FLTCKEL 1858. Landscape and history painter, son | and pupil of Claude Antoine F., history and portrait painter of beginning of 19th cen- tury ; later pupil of Herseut and Berlin, i Subjects usually taken from central France. Medals : 3d class, 1841 ; 2d class, 1837 ; 1st class, 1845 ; L. of Honour, 1851. Works : Baptism of Christ, St. Marguerite, Paris ; Saint Genevieve, St. Etienne du Mont, ib.; Ischia (1833); Environs of Maubeuge, View! of Clermont, Hell's Hole, The Bridge of j Archo (1840); Village of ('agues (1845), for- merly in Luxembourg Museum ; Monte Calvo, j near' Nice, Mill of Coutivert (1847); The' Clrove, Pasture in Normandy, Environs of j Trouville (1852), bought by the Emperor;! View on Coast of Genoa, Orleans Museum ; Landscape, Nantes Museum. Gaz. des IS. Arts (185!)), i. 302. FLICKEL, PAUL, born in Berlin, April 8, 1852. Landscape painter, pupil of Wei- mar Art School under Theodor Hagen, went in 1874 to Diisseldorf, and settled in 187G in Berlin ; travelled in Germany and Austria, and in 1877 in Italy. Works : Garden near Naples ; Villa d'Este ; View of Naples from : Capo di Moute. Miiller, 178. FLIGHT INTO EGYPT (Fr., Fuite en Egypte ; It., Fuga in Egitto ; Sp., Huida a Egipto ; Ger., Flucht nach Egypten). The flight of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph into Egypt to escape the pursuit of Herod. By (Jlaude Lorrain, Dresden Museum ; canvas, H. 3 ft. 3 in. x 4 ft. 4 in. The Virgin, with Jesus in her arms, is mounted upon an ass, which is preceded by an angel ; behind, Joseph, leaning on his staff. The landscape, one of the most beautiful by the painter, has a cascade in the iniddleground, which forms a rivulet crossed by a bridge ; in background, a city and mountains. Other figures, besides the Holy Family, are two travellers in an- tique costume, and a shepherd and shep- herdess. From the Mazarin Collection. An- other Flight into Egypt by Claude, engraved by Morel, is iu the Ashburton Collection, London. By Alexandre ZM-aw^.s, private gallery, Paris ; canvas, H. 9 in. x 1 f t. 1 in. The Holy Family about to cross a torrent at evening ; an angel leads by the bridle the ass upon which the Virgin and Child are sitting. Salon, 1850 ; Pereire sale (1872), 15,150 francs. By Edwin Lony, London ; canvas, H. 8 ft. x 10 ft. Called by the painter Anno Domini. The Holy Family in foregi'ound, the Virgin and Child seated upon an ass, beside which walks Joseph ; beyond, issu- ing from the gate of an Egyptian temple in background, at the left of which the Pyra- mids are seen, marches a procession min- strels followed by bearers of the golden im- age of Isis, by priests, by a Roman officer iu a chariot, and by the sacred bull Apis. In the foreground, near the Holy Family, are a young lover fastening an amulet around the neck of his betrothed, a negro carrying for sale a tray of Egyptian gods, and a mother holding in her arms a sick child, before whose unconscious face three girls and a negro girl-slave hold up images of the gods. By Holman Hunt. See Triumph of the Innocents. By Mnrillo, Duchesse de Galliera, Paris ; canvas, H. 7 ft. x 5 ft. G in. The Virgin, mounted on an ass walking to right, ten- derly regards the Child, who lies with his head on her right arm ; St. Joseph, in broad- brimmed hat and mantle, walks leading the animal : night scene landscape of arid country with tree on left. First manner. Painted about 1G48 for convent of La Mer- ced Calzada, now the Seville Museum ; car- ried off by Soult ; sold at his sale for 51,500 fr. C. Bermudez, ii. 59, Carta, 55 ; Ponz, Viage, ix. 107 ; Curtis, 167. By lliibe.ns, Louvre ; wood, H. 2 ft. G in. x 3 ft. 3 in. Night scene, the stars and the moon reflected in the water of a river which the Holy Family are about to cross. Mary, holding Jesus in her arms, is seated upon an ass led by an angel, while a second angel flies at her right ; Joseph, walking with his staff, turns and looks with anxiety at two 64