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 Battle of Aboukir (1806), Capitulation of Madrid, Battle of the Pyramids (1810), Interview between Napoleon and Emperor of Austria (1812), Louis XVIII. quitting the Tuileries in 1815 (1817), Charles X. at the Camp of Reims (1827), portraits of Masséna and Duc de Bellune, Eugène Beauharnais, King Jerome (1808), Marshal Duroc, Count Daru, General Count Fournier-Sarlovèse (1812), of himself, Versailles Museum; Embarcation of Duchesse d'Angoulême (1819), Bordeaux Museum; Venus and Cupid (1832), Hercules and Diomedes (1835), Portraits of himself and Madame Gros, Toulouse Museum; eleven miniatures, Montpellier Museum; Portrait of Marshal Duroc, Nancy Museum; Portraits of Napoleon, King of Westphalia, King of Naples, Louis XVIII., Charles X., and many contemporary persons of note.—Delestre, Gros, Vie et Œuvres; Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 702; Ch. Blanc, École française; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Clusman; Chesneau, Chefs d'École (Paris, 1883); Meyer, Gesch., 109; Kunstblatt (1835), No. 71-73.

GROS, LUCIEN ALPHONSE, born at Wesserling (Alsace); contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Meissonier; his pictures are well-drawn and characteristic. Medals: 1867; 2d class, 1876. Works: The Miseries of War (1873); The Arquebusier, Fishing with a Line, Cloister of St. Barthelemy at Nice (1874); Conspirators against Cardinal Mazarin, A Smoker, House of a Peasant near Nice (1875); Sitting for a Portrait (1876); Lying-in-Wait, The Critic (1878); The Blow with the Spur (1879); Pergolese in Vernet's Studio (1880); Two Philosophers, A Gentleman (1881); Maurice of Nassau (1884).

GROSCLAUDE, LOUIS, born at Locle, Switzerland, Sept. 26, 1788, died in Paris, Dec. 11, 1869. Genre painter, pupil of Regnault; widely known through his agreeably-composed and well-coloured pictures. Associate member of the Berlin Academy, 1827. Medals: 3d class, 1835; 2d class, 1838; 1st class, 1845; 1st class at Geneva and Brussels. Works: The Drinkers (1827); Soap Bubbles (1833); Toast to the Vintage of 1834 (1835); Military Salute (1837); The Little Breakfast (1838); Fortune-Teller (1839); Three Gossips (1841); Marino Faliero (1842), Drinker (1846), Neuchâtel Museum; Magdalen (1845), Collection of Duke of Treviso; Norma (1845); Saint Cecilia (1848); Reading the News of the Capture of the Malakoff, Two Little Friends (1859); Interior of a Stable near Geneva (1864); Departure of the Enrolled (1869), Musée Rath, Geneva.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 703.

GROSS, RICHARD, born in Munich in 1848. Portrait and figure painter; taken to America in childhood; pupil of the National Academy schools, New York, and studied in Munich. Bronze medal, Royal Academy, Bavaria. Studio in Munich (1882). Works: Savant; Old Nuremberg; Lady of Shalott; Portrait of William Chambers, Lady of the 17th century (1879); Initial Painter (1882).

GROSSE, FRANZ THEODOR, born in Dresden, April 23, 1829. History and portrait painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Bendemann, whom he assisted in the decoration of the Royal Palace, and then executed paintings in the Dresden Museum; went in 1858 to Florence, and in 1859 to Rome, where he studied Raphael. After his return he decorated (1864-71) the Loggia of the Leipsic Museum; became professor at the Dresden Academy in 1867. Works: Leda with the Swan (1852), Sketch for Curtain to