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 PESNE Giuocolo Giuochi. Vasari erroneously calls him Francesco Peselli, and makes Pesellino his son instead of his grandson. He is also wrong in making him a pupil of Andrea del Castagno, who was not born until 1390. None of his works extant. He was also an architect and a sculptor. C. & C., Italy, ii. 354 ; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., ii. 136, 155 ; iv. 74, 180 ; ed. Mil., iii. 35, 41 ; Liibke, Gesch. ital. Mai., i. 310. PESNE, ANTOINE, born in Paris, May 23, 1683, died in Berlin, Aug. 5, 1757. French school ; history and portrait painter, nephew of the famous engraver Jean Pcsne (1623-1700), pupil of his father, Thomas Pesue, a portrait painter, and of Charles do la Fosse, his uncle ; studied then at Rome, Naples, and Venice, and while in Italy was called in 1710 to Berlin, where he became court-painter in 1711, and director of the Academy. Member of Paris Academy in 1720. Works : Portrait of Frederik Will- iam II., do. of the Painter Nicolaas Wleu- ghels, Versailles Museum ; do. of Frederick the Great (1739), do. of Engraver G. F. Schmidt and Wife (1748), Family of Cap- tain von Erlach, Berlin Museum ; Girl with two Pigeons (1728), Fortune Teller, Cook plucking Turkey (1712), Artist's Portrait (1728), three other portraits, Dresden Mu- seum ; Girl with Basket, Old Piuakothek, Munich ; Lady's Portrait, Schweriu Gal- lery ; Story of the Widow of Corinth, Wor- litz Gallery. Bellier, ii. 246 ; Jal, 960 ; Nag- ler, xi. 159. PETER, ST., Carlo Dolci, Palazzo Pitti, Florence ; canvas, H. 5 ft. 8 in. x 3 ft. 11 in. St. Peter, sitting in a grotto, with clasped hands, weeping over his fault ; in back- ground, the cock. Painted in 1654 for Carlo Corbiuelli. Engraved by V. Benucci. Gal. du Pal. Pitti, i. PI. 34. By Guido Reni, Hermitage, St. Peters- burg. The Apostle, in a blue tunic and yellow mantle, is represented with clasped hands, expressive of repentance. PETER, ST., CHRIST'S CHARGE TO, Pietro Pcrwjino, Sistiue Chapel, Vatican ; fresco. Christ, attended by the Apostles and others in a palatial court, gives the keys to Peter, who is kneeling ; background, an octagonal temple with two porches, and a triumphal arch on each side, with landscape in background, figures in middle distance. One of his finest mural works. Finished in I486. C. & C., Italy, iii. 179 ; Woermann, ii. 238. By Rnbcnf, Hertford House, London ; wood, H. 4 ft. 7 in. x 3 ft. Figures half- length, life-size. Christ, in the presence of three of his disciples, delivers the keys to Peter, to whom he appears to say : " Feed my sheep ;" near the Saviour the heads of two sheep. Painted for chapel of tomb of Viscomto d'Arnant, Chancellor of Brabant ; sold to Lafontaino in Paris, whence taken to England and passed finally to Mr. Cham- pion for C5.000 ; sold by Mr. Pinny (1824) to Prince of Orange for 2,500 guineas ; sale of William II. (1850) to Lord Hertford, 18,375 francs. Engraved by Kraaft ; Van Eisen ; AVinstauley. Same subject, differ- ent composition, painted for chapel of tomb of Jan Brueghel, in Chartreux, Brussels. Smith, ii. 51 ; Waageu, ii. 157. Subject treated also by Jacopo da Empo- li, Trinita, Florence ; Guido Reni, Cathedral of Fano ; Heinrich von Hess, Church of All Saints, Munich ; Jean Franyois Bremoud, Church of La Villette, Paris ; Girolamo Mu- tiano, chapel in St. Peter's, Rome. PETER, ST., DELIVERANCE OF, Raphael, Stanza d'Eliodoro, Vatican ; fresco, dated 1514. In three compartments : mid- dle, the angel awakening St. Peter, who lies between two slumbering guards ; at right, he is leaving the prison with the augel, pass- ing soldiers asleep on the steps ; at left, the keepers awaking in dismay at the escape of their charge. In allusion to the escape of 423