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 negro with an ape and a dog. This picture, celebrated in its time in verse and prose, was painted for the King of Spain; but he finding the price too high, Guido sold it to M. de La Forcade for Maria de' Médici; the queen being obliged to leave Paris, M. Forcade sold it to Louis Phélipeaux, Seigneur de La Villière, from whom it passed through several other hands to the Musée Napoléon. Engraved by Desplaces.—Landon, Musée, xi. Pl. 50.

HELENA, painter, daughter of Timon of Egypt, 4th century The mosaic of the Battle of Issus, at Naples, is perhaps a reproduction of her only recorded work.—Ptolem. Hephaest. in Phot. Bibl., p. 482 (ed. Hoeschel).

HELENA, ST., VISION OF, Paolo Veronese, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 6 ft. 5 in. × 3 ft. 9 in. The Saint, in sleep or revery, reclines on a marble window-seat, resting her head upon her right hand; through the open window are seen two cherubim bearing a cross. The design appears to be after an engraving by Marc Antonio, supposed to be after a drawing by Raphael. Etched by E. W. Sherborn in Art Journal (1884), 257.—Nat. Gal. Cat.; Bartsch, xiv. 443; Richter, 74.

Vision of St. Helena, Paolo Veronese, Vatican, Rome.

By Paolo Veronese, Vatican, Rome. Seated, asleep, wearing the imperial crown, and clad in a rich brocaded Venetian costume, her head resting upon her left hand; at right, a little angel standing holds a Greek cross. Acquired from Galleria Sacchetti by Benedict XIV., who placed it in the Capitol Museum, whence removed to Vatican. Engraved by Gius. Craffonara.—Larousse, ix. 19; Vaticano descritto, vi. Pl. 76.

HELFFT, JULIUS, born in Berlin, April 6, 1818. Landscape and architecture painter, pupil of Berlin Academy and of W. Schirmer; went in 1843 to Italy, painted there a series of views around Florence for King Frederick William IV., then visited Rome, Naples, and Sicily, and returned in 1847, when he was appointed professor in Berlin Academy. Works: Sicilian Cloister Yard (1847), Doge's Palace—Venice (1856), National Gallery, Berlin; Canal Grande in Venice; San Miniato near Florence.—Müller, 247.

HELIODORUS, painter, of Athens, date unknown. Perhaps identical with sculptor of same name mentioned by Pliny (xxxvi. 4 [91]), some of whose statues were in the Temple of Jupiter in the Portico of Octavia, Rome.—Pausan., 1, 37, 1.

HELIODORUS, EXPULSION OF, Raphael, Stanza d'Eliodoro, Vatican; fresco. Heliodorus, treasurer of the Syrian king, attempting to plunder the Temple at Jerusalem, is driven out by two avenging angels (2 Maccabees, ii. 25). In background the High Priest Onias praying before the tabernacle; in foreground, right, the answer to the prayer—Heliodorus overthrown, and his soldiers put to flight by two angels with scourges and a celestial horseman; at left, the assembled people and Julius II. in his chair of state. The bearer in front is Marc Antonio Raimondi, and another farther back is supposed to be Giulio Romano. Typical of the victory of the Papacy over its enemies, especially Louis XII. of France. Painted in