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 Prince Eugène; Watch on the Rhine.—Müller, 274.

ILLUSIONS, LOST (Illusions perdues), Charles Gabriel Gleyre, lately in Luxembourg, Paris; canvas, H. 4 ft. 6 in. × 7 ft. 11 in. A man, seated in the twilight on a deserted shore, sees pass before him on the river a boat filled with young men and maidens crowned with flowers—lost illusions which the current is hurrying into the night. Salon, 1843; conceived, according to the painter's diary, on the Nile, opposite Abydos, in 1835. Replica (2 ft. 10 in. × 4 ft. 11 in.), W. T. Walters, Baltimore.—Sir Arthur Helps, Friends in Council; Art Treas. of America, i. 89.

IMER, ÉDOUARD, born in Avignon, Dec. 25, 1820, died in Haarlem, June 13, 1881. Landscape painter, self-taught. Painted truthful landscapes, usually taken from central France; travelled in the East, especially in Egypt and Algeria. Medals: 1865; 2d class, 1873. Works: Road in Provence (1850); Rhone Plain in Provence, Landscape near Marseilles (1853); Ponds of Soumabre, The Rhone (1855); Pond of Soumabre (1857), Neuchatel Museum; Sycamores on the Road to the Pyramids, Island of Philæ, Woods of Doums, Sycamores at Ghizeh, Environs of Cairo (1857); Hills of St. Marguerite, Mas de Barême, The Rhone (1859); Pond of Soumabre, The Pont du Gard, Edge of the Woods of Montespin (1861); Island of Lerins, Gulf of Juan, Masdes Aubes (1863); Sycamores at Ghizeh, View in Berry (1864); Pond of Fourdines (1865); Ruins of Crozant (1865), Neuchatel Museum; Island of St. Honorat, The Creuze (1866); Valley of Venasque, Ramparts of Aigues-Mortes (1867); Circus of Frejus, Road of Crozant (1868); Environs of San Raphaël, Bridge of San Raphaël (1869); Sluice of the Pond of Sault, View in Berry (1870); The Creuze, Quay of Zattere in Venice (1872); Oak-Tree of Voulliers, Sea View (1873); Pond of Hiot, Piedimonte, Shore of St. Jean d'Orbeiter (1874); The Creuze, Plain of Cayeux, Marshes of the Bay of the Somme (1875); Oaks of Dauphiny, Bay of the Somme (1876); Bridge of Saint-Benezet, Avignon Museum; Evening on Lagunes of Venice, Rocks near Cassis—Provence, Neuchatel Museum.—Bellier, i. 802; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xx. 505.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. See Conception.

IMOLA, GIOVANNI DA. See Ferretti.

IMOLA, INNOCENZO DA, born at Imola in 1494, died at Bologna about 1550. Bolognese school. Real name Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci; pupil in Bologna of Francesco Francia, and in Florence of Mariotto Albertinelli, in whose style he painted (1517) the Madonna with Angels and Saints, Bologna Gallery. Later he became an imitator of Raphael. On his return from Florence, executed many works at Imola and Bologna. Among the latter the most important are frescos of the Death and Assumption of the Virgin (1519), in S. Michele in Bosco; Madonna in Glory with Saints and Angels, Gallery; Annunciation, Servi; Crucifix (1549), S. Salvatore; Madonna with Saints, S. Matteo; Madonna with Kneeling Donors, Gallery; Marriage of St. Catharine (1536), S. Giacomo Maggiore. There is an altarpiece (1526) by Imola in the Duomo, Faenza; another in the Berlin Museum; a third in the Munich Gallery; and a Madonna in the Carlsruhe Gallery.—Vasari, ed. Mil., v. 185; Lermolieff, 65, 282; Gualandi, Guida di Bologna; Lanzi, iii. 36; Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise; Lübke, Gesch. der. ital. Mal., ii. 377.

IMPICCATI, ANDREA DEGLI. See Castagno.

INCENDIO DEL BORGO, Raphael, Stanza dell' Incendio, Vatican; fresco, arched top. The district of St. Peter called the Borgo Vecchio in flames ( 847), the fire even threatening the Church of St. Peter, the old façade of which is seen in background; all efforts to stay the conflagration are vain until Leo IV. appears in the Loggia of the Vatican (now destroyed) and makes the sign of the cross, when, accord