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 TROYON by Schlotthauer and Zimmermann. Beyond these are eight pictures of similar size and shape : Achilles with the Daughters of Ly- comedes (painted by Zimmermann), Mars and Venus wounded by Diomed (Schlott- hauer), Agamemnon's Dream (id.), Venus protecting Paris against Menelaus (Zimmer- mann), Ajax overcoming Hector (Cornelius), Nestor and Agamemnon awakening Diomed (id.), Priam begging the Body of Hector (Zimmermann), Farewell of Hector and An- dromache (Schlotthauer). The arabesques about these pictures were painted by Eb- erle and Neureuther. Walls : On the three walls are large paintings with colossal fig- ures. 1. Assembly of the Greeks and An- ger of Achilles ; 2. Combat over the Body of Patroclus ; 3 Destruction of. Troy, all painted by Cornelius, aided by Zimmer- mann and Schlotthauer. Painted in 1825- 30. TROYON, CONSTANT, born at Sevres, Aug. 28, 1810, died in Paris, Feb. 21 (March 20, ?), 1865. Landscape and animal paint- er, pupil of Rio- creux and Poupart and influenced by Roqueplan to study nature, for which he showed an individual feeling in first exhibited works, 1836. Visited Holland in 1847 and completed his education. After 1848 intro- duced cattle into his landscapes. Rose to be one of the greatest, if not the first, of modern French landscape painters. Medals : 3d class, 1838 ; 2d class, 1840 ; 1st class, 1846, 1848, 1855; L. of Honour, 1849. Works : Colas House at Sevres, Festival at Sevres, Bit of Park of St. Cloud (1833) ; View at Sevres, Palace of St. Cloud, Slopes of St. Cloud (1835) ; View near Argenton (1836) ; View at La Ferte-St-Aubiu (1837) ; St. Cloud, Black Road at St. Cloud, Land- scape near St. Cloud, Country Fair in Li- mousin (1838) ; Studies of Breton Scenery, View near Orleans (1840) ; Tobias and the Angel (1841) ; Women Bathing (1842) ; View near Vannes (1843) ; Forest of Fon- tainebleau, Below the Forest (1844) ; View near Fontainebleau, View at Caudebec (1845) ; Valley of Chevreuse, Clearing in the Woods, A Poacher, Beneath the Woods at Fontainebleau (1846) ; Forest of Fontaiue- bleau, Hollow Road in Normandy, Envi- rons of Amsterdam, Environs of The Hague (1848) ; Sezanne, Village of Corfelia, The Mill, Studies of Sheep, Landscape near Paris (1849) ; Flock of Sheep, Drinking- Place (Montpellier Museum), Cattle Mart, Storm at Monton-Gluine (1850) ; Cows in Pasture (1851), Leipsic Museum ; Valley of La Tonque (1853), Comtesse Lehou ; Drinking-Place at La Tonque (1853), Mont- pellier Museum ; Hollow Road (1853) ; Dogs in Leash (1854), Cattlepiece (1855), Ravene Gallery, Berlin ; Cattle and Sheep driven across Meadow (1855), Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Oxen going to Work (1855), Louvre ; Cows at a Drinking-Place, Dogs Running, Dogs Let Loose, Dogs in Leash, White Cow, Red Cow (1855) ; Return to Farm (1859), Louvre ; Going to Market, Cow in Pasture, Cows going to Fields, Study of Dog (1859) ; View in Park of Neu- illy, Amiens Museum ; Labouring Oxen, Bordeaux Museum ; Flock of Sheep in a Landscape, Sunset, Havre Museum ; View in Forest of Fontainebleau, Lille Museum. Works in United States: Autumn Woods with Cattle, Cattle, On the Road, Cows in Landscape, William H. Vanderbilt, New York ; Cow at Brook, Charles F. Woerishof- fer, ib.; Sheep, T. A. Havemeyer, ib.; Hol- land Landscape and Cattle, Cow, Miss C. L. Wolfe, ib.; Cattle Drinking, do. Grazing, Water-Cart, A. Belmont, ib.; Normandy Cattle, J. H. Stebbins, ib.; Cow and Sheep, R. Hoe, ib.; Coming Storm, J. P. Morgan, ib.; Under the Master's Eye, William Astor, ib.; Repose, W. T. Walters, Baltimore ; Cattle, Feeding Chickens, Borie Collection, Philadelphia ; Crossing the Ford, H. C. 303