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 STERN above, Christ, the Father, and St. Michael. Beside Stephen is a book crushed by stones, which have torn out one of its leaves ; typi- cal of the blind rage of the Jews, who vio- lated their own law in murdering Stephen. Euskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 303 ; Zanotto, 633. Subject treated also by Pietro da Cortona, Martyrdom of St. Stephen, Charles Lebrun, Louvre. Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Anuibale Car- racci, Louvre, Paris ; Rubens, Valenciennes Museum; Bernardo Gaddi, S. Croce, Flor- ence ; Giulio Romano, S. Stefano, Genoa ; Domenichino, National Gallery, London ; Domenico Passignani, S. Spirito, Florence ; Albrecht Altdorfer, Maurice Chapel, Nu- remberg ; Guercino, Dresden Museum ; Al- essandro Turchi, ib. ; Ludovico Cigoli, Uf- fizi, Florence ; Bartholomeus Brunbergh, Louvre ; Eustache Lesueur, Hermitage, St. 1 Petersburg ; Eugene Delacroix (1853), Ar- ras Museum ; Alphonse Legros (1866), Av- ranches Museum ; Jean Baptiste Pierre, Marseilles Museum. STERN, IGNAZ, called Stella, born at Ingolstadt in 1698, died in Rome in 1746. Italian school; history painter, pupil of Ci- gnani in Bologna. Resided later in Rome. Works : Madonna and Cherubim, do. and St. John, Germanic Muse- um, Nuremberg; Madonna and Child, Vienna Museum ; Annuncia- tion, Church of Annunciation, Pia- cenza ; several altarpieces, St. Eliz- abeth's, Rome. STETTEN, KARL VON, born at Augsburg ; contemporary. History and portrait painter, pupil of Jules Lefebvre, Boulanger, Courtois, and Dagnan. Studio in Paris. Works : Death of Cleobis and Biton (1884) ; The Evening (1885) ; Portraits (1886). STEUBEN, ALEXANDRE JO- SEPH, Baron de, born in Paris, June 22, 1814, died there, June 7, 1862. Figure and portrait painter, son and pupil of Charles de Steu- ben, and pupil of Ingres. He spent ten years in Russia, where he paint- ed for the Cathedral of St. Isaac, by order of the emperor, Jacob blessing his Children. He lived also three years in Rome. Medal, 3d class, 1840. Works: Rubens (1840); Episode of the Youth of Milton (1842); Bath at the Fountain, Wom- en of the Environs of Rome (1845). Bel- lier, ii. 526. STEUBEN, CHARLES, Baron de, born at Bauerbach, Baden, April 19, 1788, died in Paris, Nov. 21, 1856. French school ; history and portrait painter, son of an offi- cer in the Russian service, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy, and in Paris of Ge- rard, Robert Lefebvre, and Prudhon. Mem- ber St. Petersburg Academy, 1833. Di- rector of drawing in Paris Polytechnic