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 *phael et l'Antiquité, i. 279; Springer, 260; Perkins, Essay, 160.

Subject treated also by Francesco Albani, Dresden Gallery; Nicolas Poussin, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Agostino Carracci, Palazzo Farnese, Rome; Luca Giordano, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Domenico Feti, Vienna Museum; School of Botticelli, Dresden Museum.

GALATON of Alexandria, time of Ptolemy Philopater (222-205 ). Ælian (Var. hist. xiii. 24) says he painted a picture intended to cast ridicule on the epic poets of Alexandria.

GALBRUND, ALPHONSE LOUIS, born in Paris, June 30, 1810, died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in June, 1885. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Richomme and Regnault. Medal, 1865. Works: St. Medardus (1850); Chambermaid (1855); Girl Scholar (1865); Young Housewife (1870); Consolation (1875); Reverie (1878), Pau Museum; The King's Cake (1880); Woman Darning (1882); Gypsy Girl (1885).

GALE, WILLIAM, born in London in 1832. History and genre painter, pupil of Royal Academy; first exhibited in 1845 Young Celadon and his Amelia. Spent several years in Italy and travelled in Syria, Palestine, and Algeria. Works: Weeping Place of the Jews in Jerusalem (1863); Entrance into Jerusalem (1867); Return of the Prodigal (1869); Cupid's Ambassador (1871); Abraham and Isaac going to Sacrifice (1872); Eyes to the Blind (1873); Spring-Time in the East (1874); The Competitive Examination (1875); Chess-Players, Love-Tale (1876); Spoils of War (1877); Algerian Interior (1868); Song of Miriam (1881); Helweh (1883).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 378.

GALILEO BEFORE BARBERINI, Charles Louis Müller, Charles S. Smith, New York; canvas. The astronomer received by his friend Cardinal Barberini, who afterwards became Pope Urban VIII.

GALILEO IN PRISON, Karl von Piloty, Cologne Museum; canvas, H. 10 ft. × 7 ft. 3 in. The astronomer in pensive attitude looking at some mathematical lines he has drawn upon the floor, upon which falls a ray of sunlight. In the background a grated window through which two monks are observing him.

GALIMARD, NICOLAS AUGUSTE, born in Paris, March 25, 1813, died at Montigny-le-Cormeilles (Seine-et-Oise), Jan. 17, 1880. Genre painter, fellow pupil with Ingres under A. Hesse. Medals: 3d class, 1835; 2d class, 1846. Works: Lady of the Castle in the 16th century; Holy Women at the Tomb of Christ (1835); Liberty leaning on Christ (1836); Nausicaä (1841); Angel (1845); Ode (1846), Luxembourg Museum; Virgin at Prayer; Jealous Juno; Christ Blessing (1848), Cathedral of Périgueux; Virgin in Tears (1849), Church of Jonzac; Leda (1857); The Papacy (1868); Portrait of Hesse (1870); Pré-des-Lions in June (1875); St. Louis, King of France, Henri Jules de Bourbon, Versailles Museum.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 601; Chronique des Arts, January 24, 1880; Am. Art. Rev., March, 1880; Kunst-Chronik, xv. 386; Vapereau (1880), 763.

GALLAIT, LOUIS, born at Tournay, March 10, 1810. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Tournay Academy under Hennequin. Having obtained the first prize at Ghent in 1831, he studied at the Antwerp Academy, and in 1834 went to Paris, where his portraits and historical paintings were soon highly esteemed. His Abdication of Charles V., painted at Brussels in 1841, placed him at once at the head of Belgian historical painters, and won for him the Belgian Order of Leopold, and the French Legion of Honour. The city of Brussels struck a medal in his honour, Member of Brussels, Antwerp, Paris, Berlin, and Munich Academies. Prussian Order of