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 College Gallery; canvas, H. 7 ft. × 6 ft. Jeremiah, full-length, seated in the court of the prison, dictating his prophecy of the fall of Jerusalem to Baruch the Scribe, who sits at his feet (Jer. i. 17, 18). Painted about 1820; belonged to Miss Gibbs, of Newport, of whom bought for $7,000 by Professor Morse and presented to Yale College.

Jeremiah, Washington Allston, Yale College Gallery.

By Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, Rome; fresco on ceiling.

JEREMIAH AT THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, Eduard Bendemann, National Gallery, Berlin; canvas, H. 13 ft. 7 in. × 16 ft. 9 in. Signed and dated, Düsseldorf, 1872. In the foreground the prophet in speechless grief sitting among the ruins; at his side, Baruch, kneeling in prayer; at right, a group of despairing women and children from whom a Babylonian warrior has snatched a bag; in the middle, Nebuchadnezzar in royal attire upon his chariot accompanied by female satellites, preceded by the army laden with booty; behind him, the blind king Zedekiah, feeling his way with his staff, surrounded by women and followed by priests with the ark of the covenant; in the background, left, the smoking ruins of the temple.—Jordan (1885), i. 11.

JERICHAU, HARALD (ADOLF NIKOLAJ), born in Copenhagen, Aug. 17, 1852, died in Rome, March 6, 1878. Landscape painter, son of the sculptor Jens Adolf and of Elizabeth Jerichau; pupil of his mother, then in Rome of Bénouville, but studied chiefly from nature, travelling in Switzerland, Greece, Turkey, and Asia Minor. Works: Ponte Molle, View from Velletri (1870); Coast of Sorrento; Caravan of Sardes, Copenhagen Gallery; The Acropolis at Athens, Greek Convent on Isle of Paros (1874).—Illustr. Tidende (1878), No. 971; Weilbach, 330; Sigurd Müller, 178.

JERICHAU-BAUMANN, ELISABETH, born in Warsaw, Nov. 21, 1819, died in Copenhagen, July 11, 1881. Genre painter, pupil in Düsseldorf of Karl Sohn and Stilke; went in 1845 to Rome, where she married the Danish sculptor Jerichau, whom she accompanied to Copenhagen. In 1852 she visited England, France, and Russia, and afterwards Rome, Greece, Constantinople, Asia Minor, and Egypt. Member of Copenhagen Academy, 1861. Works: Young Bride going to Church (1840), Polish Mother with Children leaving their Destroyed Home (1844), Raczynski Gallery, Berlin; Polish Peasant Family returning to Ruins of Burnt House (1844), Lord Lansdowne, London; Girls at the Well in Ariccia (1845); Portrait of her Husband (1846), Copenhagen Gallery; Peasant Girl reading Bible, Girl playing with Sheep, Carnival Scenes, Home Devotion, Allegory of Denmark (1847); Stranded; Orphans; Finis Poloniæ; Danish Fisherman; Icelandic Girl (1852), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Wounded Soldier nursed by his Betrothed (1866), Copenhagen Gallery; Portraits of the Brothers Grimm; Hans Christian An