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 About and of Jules David. His pictures have a certain elegance of style and are agreeable in colour. Medals in 1864, 1865, and 1866; L. of Honour, 1867. Works: Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus, Nymph and Satyr (1861), Besançon Museum; Love quenching his Thirst (1863); Agrippina leaving the Camp (1864), Lille Museum; Abduction of Amymone (1865), Luxembourg Museum; Christ blessing Little Children (1867); Carmela's Last Pin (1868); Pentecost (1870); Cupid and Venus (1873); Calvary, The Cemetery (1875); Sonnino (1876); Night (1877); Christ among the Doctors, Christ blessing the Children, Descent of the Holy Ghost, St. Étienne du Mont, Paris; Portraits of Generals Marulaz and Morand, Hôtel de Ville, Besançon; Portrait of Chancellor d'Aguesseau, Palais de Justice, Paris; La Giottina (1879); Centaur and Nymph (1880); Innocence (1884).—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 643; Larousse.

GIAMBONO, MICHELE, Venetian school, middle of 15th century. A humble follower in the path of Jacobello del Fiore, but showing an improvement in technical handling, due to the study of Gentile da Fabriano and of Pisanello. Giambono treated mosaic with more skill than painting.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 13; Lermolieff, 395.

GIANNICOLA BITTI. See Manni.

GIANNUZZI, GIULIO PIPPI DE'. See Giulio Romano.

GIBERT, JEAN BAPTISTE ADOLPHE, born at Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe, January 24, 1803. Landscape painter, pupil in Paris of Guillon-Lethière and of the École des Beaux Arts; obtained in 1829 the grand prix de Rome, in which city he settled. Works: Forest of Nettuno; Battle of Eckmühl, Versailles Museum; Calydonian Boar-Hunt; Banks of the Teverone (1850); Acropolis of Athens (1853); View in Pontine Swamps (1855), Avignon Museum; View of Ardea (1859); View of Abu Mandur in Egypt (1863); View from Terrace of French Academy in Rome (1872); Views in Sicily.

GIBRALTAR, SIEGE OF, John Singleton Copley, Guildhall, London; canvas. Scene: the repulse of the Spanish floating batteries; the firing has partly ceased, and the English officers are endeavouring to rescue the sufferers from the burning vessels. Painted in 1789-90 for Court of Common Council of City of London. Study (4 ft. 4 in. × 6 ft. 2 in.) in National Gallery; engraved by William Sharp.—Cat. Nat. Gal.

GIDE, THÉOPHILE, born in Paris, March 15, 1822. History and genre painter, pupil of Delaroche and Cogniet. Usually paints scenes from life in Italian monasteries. Medals: 3d class, 1861; Medal, 1865, 1866; L. of Honour, 1866. Works: Condemnation of Cinq Mars (1855); Raising of Youth at Nain (1857); Sully leaving the Court of Louis XIII. (1863), Angers Museum; Farewell to the Convent (1864), Amiens Museum; Neapolitan Singer (1864); Studious Monks (1865), Alençon Museum; Pius IX. visiting a Convent; Practising a Musical Mass (1866), Roubaix Museum; School; Letter of Recommendation, Coligny visited by Charles IX., Two Bad Acquaintances, Cooper's Shop (1874); Indiscreet Confidence, Another Glass! (1875); Charles IX. forced to sign the Order for the Massacre of the Huguenots (1876); Interior of St. Mark's in Venice, Louis XI. surprised by his Fool when at Prayer (1877); Young Invalid (1878); Othello narrating his Adventures, Father Fiorista (1879); Marie Antoinette in the Conciergerie (1880); Cavalier and Maid-Servant, Interior of a Monastery in Nice (1881); Mazarin receiving a Messenger (1882); The Importunate Person, Visitors to the Palace of Fontainebleau (1883); Take Care! Checkmate (1884); No Jesting with edged Tools (1885).—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 645.

GIERYMSKI, MAX, born at Warsaw, Oct. 15, 1846, died at Reichenhall, Bavaria, Sept. 16, 1874. Landscape and genre painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Alexander Wagner, then of Franz Adam, and later led to landscape by Eduard Schleich.