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 VAUTIER Agnes, Saint Eustache, ib. ; Decorations of one of the grand salons de reception in the Hotel de Ville (burned under the Commune); Ceiling of Victory in the Palace of the Tuil- eries (destroyed under the Commune). He made also designs for Gobelin tapestry for the Apollo Gallery, Louvre. Bellier, ii. 638. VAUTIER, BENJAMIN, born at Morges on Lake Geneva, April 24, 1829. Genre painter, pupil at Geneva of Robert and of Lugardon, then (1850) in DUsseldorf of the Academy and of Jordan ; studied peasant life in the Black Forest and in the Berne Highlands, then attracted by Knaus went in 1856 to Paris, and six months later settled in Diisseldorf, where he at once achieved a brilliant success with his Church Scene, exhibited at the historical exhibition at Munich in 1858, and has since attained a position by the side of Rnaus as one of the great painters of popular life. He has made also masterly illustrations to works by Auerbach and Immermann. Member of Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Antwerp, and Am- sterdam Academies. Professor in 186C. Gold medals: Berlin, 1864; Paris, 1865, 1866 ; 2d class, 1867 ; 1st class, 1878. Or- der of Francis Joseph, 1868 ; Order of Red Eagle; Order of St. Michael, 1869; L. of Honour, 1878. Works : Church Scene (1858) ; Auction in Old Castle (1859) ; Sun- day Morning Toilet ; Women coming from Church find their Husbands at the Inn (1862), Leipsic Museum ; Sewing School ; The Tutor ; Peasant and Broker, Involun- tary Confession, Basle Museum ; Saying Grace, Berne Museum ; Peasants at Trial, Sick Mother, Musee Rath, Geneva ; Sunday in Suabia ; Peasants in a Picture Gallery ; Young and Old ; The Sisters ; Repast after Funeral, Cologne Museum ; First Dancing Lesson (1868), National Gallery, Berlin ; Antiquary in Peasant's Cottage ; Sail over Brienz Lake to a Funeral ; Farewell of Dy- ing Peasant Woman ; Interrupted Brawl (1869) ; Entrapped Rat, Stettin Museum ; Toast to the Bride (Rococo Costume, 1870), Hamburg Gallery ; Ruse for Ruse, Public Dinner (1871); Burial (1872); Consulting his Lawyer, W. T. Walters, Baltimore ; Visit at the Fireside (1873); Quarrel at Chess; Invi- tation to the Dance ; Departure from Homo (1875) ; Before the Meeting (1876) ; Little Barefoot ; Intermission at Alsatian Wed- ding (1878), Dresden Gallery ; The May- or's Annual Dinner (Exposition universelle, 1878), John G. Johnson, Philadelphia ; Wait- ing Room at Post Station ; Arrest of Usurer (1879) ; Visit of Young Couple (1880) ; Ob- stinacy (1882), DUsseldorf Gallery ; Bota- nist, Alsatian Woman (1882). niustr. Zeitg. (1878), ii. 463 ; (1879), ii. 274 ; (1881), ii. 10 ; (1882), ii. 531 ; Jordan (1885), ii. 229 ; Kunst-Chronik, i. 85 ; v. 94, 143 ; vi. 119 ; viii. 60, 627, 807 ; ix. 450, 578, 820 ; x. 139, 459 ; xi. 74, 273 ; xvii. 337 ; xviii. 740 ; Land und Meer (1869), i. 54 ; Br. Meyer, stud. u. Krit., 246; Mailer, 531; Pecht, iii. 351; Reber-Pecht, iii. 341 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, iii. 166, 279 ; iv. 17, 177 ; vi. 148 ; ix. (Mit- theilungen, ii. 28) ; xii. 259 (Mit., v. 50). VAYSON, PAUL, born at Gordes (Vau- cluse) ; contemporary. Genre and flower painter, pupil of Gleyre and Laurens. Medals: 3d class, 1875 ; 2d class, 1879 ; L. of Honour, 1886. Works : Hay Making in Provence (1868); Sheep in Provence (1879); Departure of the Herd (1880); Herds coming down from Mountains (1881) ; Herd Returning (1882) ; Fair of St. Triniti"; in Provence (1883) ; Threshing Corn ; Hunter of Camargue ; Sleeping Shepherd- ess ; Spring (1884) ; Truffle Gatherers, Bull in Pasture (1886). VECCHIA, PIETRO DELLA, born in 1605, died there in 1678. Venetian school ; pupil of Alessandro Varotari, who imitated the style of Giorgione and of Pordenone so successfully that some of his pictures have been attributed to them. Most of his works 827