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 PYNAS scape with Cattle and Herdsmen, Sunset in the Mountains, Louvre ; Deer-Hunt, Brussels Museum ; Border of Italian Lake, Pilgrimage, Italian Landscapes (2), Amsterdam Museum ; The Torrent, Hague Museum ; others in Museums of Kotterdam (3), Aix-la-Chapelle (2), Basle, Berlin (2, one dated 1654), Bruns- wick, Dresden, Gotha (3), Vienna ; Galleries of Aschaft'enburg, Cassel, Frankfort, Ham- burg (3), Schleissheim ; Old Pinakothek, Munich (2, one dated 1659) ; Gallery, and Moltke Collection (2), Copenhagen ; Hermit- age, St. Petersburg (5) ; Academy, and Czernin and Liechtenstein (3) Galleries, Vienna ; Uffizi, Florence. Immerzeel, ii. 331 ; Kramm, v. 1320 ; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 488 ; Riegel, Beitriige, ii. 377. PYNAS, JAN, born at Haarlem about 1580, died after 1621. Dutch school ; bib- lical scenes, history, and landscape painter. Went to Italy with Pieter Lastman, Goudt, and Elzhehner in 1G05. Adopted the so- called dark style ; on his return settled at Haarlem. He painted also single figures, philosophers, alchymists, and the like. Ac- cepted by most writers as one of Rembrandt's masters. Works : The Miser, Uffizi, Flor- ence (?) ; Picture of a Bearded Man, Gotha Gallery (?) ; Mary and St. John under the Cross, Hague Museum ; Expulsion of Hagar (1613), Suermoudt Museum, Aix-la-Chapelle ; Moses striking the Rock, Vienna Museum. About his younger brother Jacob, probably his pupil, nothing is known, except that he painted : Queen of Sheba (1627). The fol- lowing works may be by either of the two : Raising of Lazarus (1609) ; Christ's Walk to Emmaus. Bode, Studien, 343 ; Kramm, v. 1287 ; Nagler, Mon., iii. 526 ; iv. 82. PYRAMIDS, BATTLE OF THE, Baron Grox, Versailles Museum ; canvas, H. 12 ft. 9 in. x 16 ft. 9 in. Battle fought July 21, 1 1798. The picture illustrates the moment when Bonaparte addressed his army with 'the famous words: "Soldiers, remember that from the summit of those monuments forty centuries look down upon you ! " The general-in-chief, mounted upon a superb white horse, in the centre of the compo- sition, points to the Pyramids in the dis- tance, while his staff and others around him are electrified by his words. In the back- ground, the army of Mourad Bey is deploy- ing, its vanguard just opening the engage- ment. Salon, 1810. Engraved by Vallot ; J. Frilley. Larousse, xiii. 449 ; Ch. Blanc, IScole fram/aise. PYREICUS, painter. See Pirmcus. PYRRHON, the Sceptic, Greek philos- opher of Elis, in the 4th century B.C., was a painter in early life. A picture of some torchbearers, painted by him in the gym- nasium of his native town, is mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (ix. 62). Sillig, 399. PYRRHUS, RESCUE OF, Nicolas Poua- sin, Louvre ; canvas, H. 3 ft. 10 in. x 5 f t. 3 in. yEacides, King of Epirus, having been driven from his kingdom by rebels, Pyr- rhus, his infant sou, is saved by his adhe- rents ; the flying party, coming to a river and having no means of crossing it, make known their situation to the Megarians on the opposite bank, who construct a raft and rescue them from their pursuers. Collec- tion of Louis XIV. Engraved by G. Au- dran ; G. Chasteau (1676). Replica in small, Lord Darnley, Cobham Hall. Cat. Louvre ; Filhol, x. PI. 667 ; Waagen, Treas- ures, iii. 25 ; Smith, viii. 88. PYTHAGORAS, Rubens, Buckingham Palace ; canvas, H. 8 ft. 8 in. x 12 ft. 6 in. Pythagoras, seated at foot of a tree, at right, teaching his disciples, three of whom stand near him, the use of fruit and vegetables, quantities of which are piled in the fore- 4S5