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 SUPPLEMENT of Jouffroy and of Falguiere. Medal, 3d class, 1883. Is far better known as a sculptor, in which department of art he has received many decorations and is an Officer of the L. of Honour (1879). Works : After the Funeral Souvenir of Brittany, De- lilah (1881) ; The First Halt (1882) ; Venus (1883) ; Leda (1884) ; Michelangelo studying Anatomy (1885) ; Blood of Venus (1886). MESLE, JOSEPH PAUL, born at Saint- Servan (Hie - et - Vilaine) ; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Leon Bonnat. Medal, 3d class, 1886. Works: Landscape (1880) ; Breton Girl (1881) ; do. and Portrait of Mme. D. L. (1882) ; Little Peasant Girl (1883) ; A Mother (1884) ; Two Sisters (1886). von Bremen), died in Berlin, Dec. 4, 1886. MICHEL, GEORGES, born in Paris in 1763, died in 1843. Landscape and genre painter, pupil of Taunay. He was an ex- cellent copyist, and was employed in the restoration of the pictures of Cardinal Fesch. Though he had but little reputation in his day, his pictures are now much sought after. Works : Horse Market (1791) ; Swiss Landscape (1793) ; Military Convoy, Halt of Cavalry (1800) ; Rainy Landscape (1808) ; Animals going to Drinking Place (figures by Taunay), Nantes Museum. Some fine examples of his work are owned in this counti-y by John W. Mason, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Henry T. Chapman, Jr., ib. Morgan sale, New York, 1886, were sold the following : Shepherdess and Sheep (water- colour), $1,525 ; Gathering Apples, $2,575 ; Wool Carder, $3,650 ; Feeding Poultry, $4,000 ; Dressing Flax (1854), $4,975 ; The Churner (Laurent Richard sale, Paris, 1878), $8,100; Gathering Beans, $6,300; Wood Cutters, $5,000 ; Woman in Kitchen, $650 ; The Spaders, $3,800 ; The Spinner, $14,000. MORENO, Don MANUEL GOMEZ, born at Granada ; contemporary. History paint- er, pupil of Granada Art School, and under Federico Madrazo of Madrid Academy (1857 -60) ; won two competition prizes at Gra- nada in 1861 and 1862, and was appointed professor of drawing at the royal college of San Bartolome y Santiago in 1867. Went to Rome in December, 1878, and studied there for two years. Gold medal, 1875. Works : Pieta, (1861) ; Christ on Calvary (1862); St. Teresa (1867); Conception (1875), Granada University ; Courtyard of the Mosque in the Alhambra (1875) ; Read- ing the Bill (1876) ; Scene during First Ex- pulsion of the Moors under Philip II. (1877); Chamber where Queen Aixa visited her dis- graced Son Boabdil (1879) ; San Juan de Dios saving from the Flames the Infirm of the Hospital at Granada (1880). La Ilus- tracion (1881), i. 410. DE. Add to works : Assault on Tel-ul- Kebir (1883, episode of the war in Egypt), Knoedler & Co., New York. OLIVE, JEAN BAPTISTE, born at Mar- seilles ; contemporary. Marine painter, pu- pil of Vollon. Medals : 3d class, 1885 ; 2d class, 1886. Works: Rocks at Treport (1879) ; The Mediterranean (1880) ; Old Port of Marseilles, Still-Life (1881) ; Beach of the Prado during the Mistral (1882) ; Promenade of la Croisette at Cannes (1883); Entrance to Old Port of Marseilles, Sea Shore at St. Laurent (1885) ; Mistral in Isle of the Prado Marseilles, iSpaves de la Navarre near Marseilles (1886). PERRANDEAU, CHARLES, born at Sully - sur - Loire (Loiret) ; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Alexandre Cabanel. Medal, 3d class, 1886. Works: Ecstasy (1881) ; Death of Jesus (1882) ; A Widow, Fatigue (1883) ; The Scholar of the Village, Young Sardiniere (1884) ; Return from Mar- ket (1885) ; Wretchedness (1886). class medal for his Return to the Farm during an Inundation, Salon, 1886. PROUVE, VICTOR EMILE, born at Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) ; contemporary. Figure painter, pupil of Devilly and of Ca- banel. Medal, 3d class, 1886. Works: 484
 * MEYER, JOHANN GEORG (Meyer
 * MILLET, JEAN FRANgOIS. At the
 * NEUVILLE, ALPHONSE (MARIE)
 * PRINCETEAU, RENE. Awarded a 2d