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 EOBERT-FLEUEY L. of Honour, 1831. Works : Neapolitan Improvisator (1824); Peasant Woman of the Campagua (1824); Festival of the Madonna dell' Arco (1827), Arrival of Harvesters in the Pontine Marshes (1830), Louvre ; Her- mit of Monte Epomeo Isle of Ischia, Re- ceiving. Fruit from Young Girl, Nantes Museum ; Italian Bandit Wounded, Bandit Women in Flight, Basle Museum ; Roman Girl with Tambourine, Berne Museum ; Children of Canton Berne, Italian Girls, Sacristy of S. Giovanni in Laterano, Rome, Musee Rath, Geneva ; Basilica of S. Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome after the Fire (1823), Interior of do., Central Fragment of L'lm- provisatore, Fishers of the Adriatic (1834), Views iu Rome (2), Retreat of Brigands, Le Septembriseur, Portraits (4), and Stud- ies (5), Neuchatel Museum ; Italian Brigand Asleep (1822), National Gallery, Berlin; The Mowers (1835, last work), Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Woman of Procida with her Child " (182G), New Piuakothek, Munich ; do. (1831), Konigsberg Museum ; Robber Asleep guarded by his Wife (1823), Leipsic Museum ; Gipsy, August Belmont, New York ; Roman Ruins, B. Wall, Providence. Feuillet de Conches, Leopold Robert (Paris, 1849); Clement, Leopold Robert (Paris, 1874) ; Hamertou, I French Painters, 54 ; Meyer, Gesch., 514 ; Planche, Portraits d' Artistes, ii. 1. ROBERT-FLEURY, (JOSEPH) NICO- LAS, born in Cologne, Aug. 8, 1797, of French parents. History and genre painter, pupil of Girodet, Gros, and Horace Vernet. Lived much in Rome up to 1826, when he settled in Paris. In 1833 he exhibited Scene in the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, which at once gave him a high position. Medals : 2d class, 1824 ; 1st class, 1834, 1855, 18C7 ; L. of Honour, 1836 ; Officer, 1849 ; Com- mander, 1867 ; Member of Institute, 1850 ; director of French Academy at Rome, 1866. Works : Tasso in Convent of San Onofrio ^ I // / Ot- / JjQ^ (1827); Reading at Mme. de Sevigne's (1833); Eve of St. Bartholomew (1833), Compiegne Palace ; Procession of the Ligue, Religious Discussion (1834) ; Regent in Council, Con- stable Albert de Luynes (1835) ; Henri IV. brought back to the Louvre after his Assas- sination (1836); St. Francis de Sales (1837); Christ and Little Children (1837), Nantes Museum ; Coming out of Church (1837) ; Entry of Clovis into Tours (1838), Arrival of Baldwin of Flanders at Edessa, 1097 (1839), Versailles Museum ; Conference at Poissy in 1561 (1840), Luxembourg Mu- seum ; Release of St. Peter, Ambroise Pare, Children of Louis XVL in Temple (1840) ; Pierre de la Ramee awaiting the Murderers on St. Bartholomew's Day, Neuchatel Mu- seum ; Inquisition, Michelangelo tending his Sick Servant Urbino, Benvenuto Cellini at Work (1841) ; Marino Faliero ; Burning a Heretic ; Rembrandt's Studio (1845); Gali- leo, Christopher Columbus received at the Court of Spain (1847) ; Massacre of Jews in London on Coronation Day of Edward H. (1848), Report to the Cardinal (1849), Ra- vene Gallery, Berlin ; Jane Shore (1850), Luxembourg Museum ; The Venetian Sen- ate (1850); Death of Montaigne (1853); Sack of a Jew's House (1855), Luxembourg ; Charles V. at San Yuste (1857) ; Philip VI. of Valois, Connetables Dues de Luynes and de Lesdiguieres, Marshals Biron and Vil- leroy (1835), Versailles Museum ; The Toi- let, Montpellier Museum ; Three Portraits, Nantes Museum ; The Body of Titian lying in State in the Palazzo Barbarigo Venice, Portrait of the Artist, Antwerp Museum. Also executed important decorative works /7 x"~ in the audience hall of the T /I Tribunal de Commerce, Paris. VX V 1 Bellier, ii. 397 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 188 ; Larousse ; Meyer, Gesch., 279 ; Saint Valliere, Notice sur la vie, etc. (Paris, 1847); Zeitschr. f. b. K, v. 121. ROBERT-FLEURY, TONY, bora in Paris, Sept. 16, 1838. History, genre, and portrait painter, son of Joseph Nicolas, pu- pil of Paul Delaroche and Leon Cogniei 64