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 MATIIIEU painter, pupil of Cogniet, Pils, Mazerollc, and Ouiy. Medal, 2d class, 1885. Works : Mephistopheles and the Scholar (18G8) ; Be- heading of St. John (1870) ; Environs of Douarnenez (1879) ; Last Supper (1880) ; Ou the Stone Beach (1881) ; Portraits (1885). MATHIEU, AUGUSTE, born at Dijon in 1810, died in Paris, March, 1864. Archi- tecture painter, pupil of Ciceri ; painted in- teriors of public buildings. Medals : 2d class, 1842 ; L. of Honour, 1859. Works : Interior of Church of Nuremberg (1838) ; St. Nicholas de Brou (1842) ; Ratisbon ; Picardy ; Audernach ; Hall of the Dijon Museum ; Cathedral of Ulm ; Cathedral of Angouleme ; Mysterious House of Adam Kraft't in Nuremberg ; St. Gereon in Co- logne (1859) ; Chapel of Mont St. Bernard. Bellier, ii. 52 ; Larousse. MATHIEU, LAMBERT JOSEPH, born at Bure, Bel g i u m, May 5, 1804, died at Louvain in 1861. His- tory painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy under Mattheus Ig- natius van Bree, then studied in Paris; re- turned in 1833, and became director and first professor of Lou- vain Academy in 1834 ; member of Antwerp Academy in 1835. Knight of Order of Leo- pold. Works : The Flood (1833), Brussels Museum ; Death of Rubens, Philip the Good decorating his Lady Love with Order of Golden Fleece (1834) ; Christ on the Cross (1836), Jesuit Church, Louvaiu ; Maria of Burgundy thrown from her Horse at the Chase (1864); Holy Family; Isabella of Croy serving Breakfast for Louis XI. and Quentin Durward (1837) ; Castellan cares- sing Falcon, Falcon Chase (1838); Educa- tion of the Virgin, Assumption (1839) ; Raphael and the Fornariua ; Daughter of Jairus ; Jacob and Rachel (1842). Iniiner- zeel, ii. 207 ; Raczynski, iii. 450. MATHILDE, PRINCESS, born at Tri- este, May 27, 1820. Genre painter in water- colours, daughter of King Jerome Bona- parte, pupil of Eugene Giraud. Medal, 1865. Works : Head Study (1864) ; In- trigue under the Portico of Ducal Palace in Venice (1865); Young Girl's Head (1865), formerly in Luxembourg Museum ; Jewess of Algiers (1866), Lille Museum ; Turco's Head (1867). Bellier, ii. 54. MATOL'T, LOUIS, born at Renwez (Ar- dennes), March 19, 1811. Historical and mythological genre painter, pupil of the Art School at Charleville ; was at first an architect ; painted mediocre decorative works, such as frescos in one of the rooms of the Louvre. Medals : 3d class, 1853, 1857 ; L. of Honour, 1857. Works : Pan and Nymphs ; Woman of Boghari torn by Lioness (1855), Luxembourg Museum ; Rich and Poor (1861),CliateauTOuxMuseum;Mar- riagc of Bacchus and Ariadne (1875) ; Venus Paudemos (1876) ; Christ at Simon's House (1879), La Rochelle Cathedral ; Perseus de- livering Andromeda (1884) ; Nymph asleep in Pan's Forest (1885) ; mural paintings in the Ecole de Medeciiio (1857) ; do. in the Lariboisiere Hospital, and Imperial ( rallery, Louvre. Bellier, ii. 55 ; Du Camp, Beaux Arts, 27 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1861), x. 94. MATSYS. See J/as^.s. MATTACCIO, IL. See Suthma. MATTEIS, PAOLO DE, born at Cilento, Naples, in 1662, died at Naples in 1728. Neapolitan school ; history painter, pupil of Luea Giordano and of Giovanni Maria Moraudi ; worked in Rome for Popes Clem- ent XL, Clement XII., and Benedict XIII.; invited to France, he acquired during a residence of three years celebrity at court and throughout the kingdom. After his return he deviated from the style of Gi- ordano, leaning moro towards the Roman school. Many of his frescos and easel pict- ures are in Genoa and Naples, and he paint- ed much at Monte Cassino in 1692, and in 1706-9. Works : Scenes from Tasso's Je- rusalem (3), Aschaffeuburg Gallery ; Death