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 PETITOT The Meuse near Dinant (1879) ; Street at 1 Liverdun, Norman Coast at Hennrcjueville (1880) ; Views in Lorraine (1881, 1882, 1883) ; Ostend (1882) ; Village of Circourt- Vosges (1883) ; Basin of Canal at Antwerp, Village in Country of Neufchateau (1881) ; Street at Liverdun Lorraine, Ramparts of Vliessingen (1885) ; Domgermain-le-Vigno- ble, Stockade of Ostend (1880). Bellier, 11. 252. PETITOT, JEAN, born at Geneva, July 12, 1607, died at Vevay in 1G91. French school ; portrait painter in enamel of great renown, supposed to have gone to Paris at an early age, and about 1G34 to London, where the king's physician, Sir Theodore de Mayerne, an excellent chemist, communi- cated his discoveries in the treatment of enamels to Petitot, and introduced him to Charles I., who took him into his service and gave him apartments at Whitehall. He painted the portrait of that monarch and : the royal family several times, and copied several pictures after Van Dyck, who assist- ed him with his advice. After the death of Charles I. he followed the royal family to France, where he found equal favour with Louis XIV., but on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1G85, retired to his na- tive laud. He may almost be considered the inventor of painting in enamel, which he carried to a perfection before unknown ; his works are extremely scarce and valuable. The Apollo Gallery in the Louvre contains about sixty of the finest, the most interest- ing of which are : Several portraits of Louis XIV. at different periods, three of Anne of Austria, two of Madame de Maintenon, La Duchesse de La Valliere, Ninon de 1'Enclos, Madame de Sevigue, Duchess of Portsmouth, Christina of Sweden, Cardinal Richelieu, Madame de Moutespan, Marechal de Villars. The beautiful portrait of the Countess of Southampton (1G42, after van Dyck), now in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, is declared to be the finest specimen of en- amel painting in existence. Bellier, ii. 253; Jal, 9G3 ; Nagler, xi. 177 ; Spoouer, ii. G84. PETRARCH, TRIUMPH OF, Louis Bou- 't; private gallery. The return of the cortege from the Capitol, Rome, whither the poet had gone at the summons of the sen- ate, in 1341, to receive the laurel crown. His chariot is surrounded by the Muses, and llevery is seated at his feet. Salon, 183G. PETRI, HEINRICH, born at G.Htingen in 1835, died at Diisseldorf, Feb. 15, 1872. History painter, pupil of Diisseldorf Acad- emy ; allied himself closely with Deger, and, after a short stay in Munich in 1857, studied in Rome (1858-59), with Overbeck as liis model, and returned there in 18G8. Works : Descent from the Cross (18G2) ; Madonna (3, 1861-G2-G3) ; Mary and John beside the Cross (18G4) ; Entombment (187(1) ; The Virgin as Patron of Poor Chil- dren (1871). Blanckarts, 5G ; Zeitschr. f. b. K., viii. 97. PETROXILLA, ST., Giwrcitw, Capitol Gallery, Rome; canvas. The body of St. Petronilla, in her bridal dress, is being low- ered into the tomb. Three grave-diggers support the corpse, while a young man and two old men look on. To the right are two women and a person holding a taper, probably Flaccus, her betrothed ; above, the Virgin in glory, surrounded by angels, kneeling before Christ, receives the Saint into heaven. A masterpiece in Guercino's second manner. Painted about 1G22, by order of Gregory XV., for St. Peter's, Rome, where is a copy in mosaic, considered one of the finest in the church. Engraved by N. Dorigny ; J. J. Frey. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 2 ; Lavice, 331. PETTEXKOFEN, AUGUST VON, born in Vienna in 1821. Genre painter of great local fame ; loves to paint soldier and peas- ant life of Hungary, where he has travelled much. Member of Vienna Academy in 186G, of Munich Academy in 18G7 ; knight- ed in 187G ; professor in 1880. Works : Russian Bivouac near Igmand (1851) ; Monks in a Cloister (1853) ; Hungarian Puszta, do. Farm, do. Market (1854); Horses before 42!)