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 KISS, THROWING A (Baiser Envoyé), Jean Baptiste Greuze, Alfred de Rothschild Collection, London. A lady, seen half-length, at a window hung with curtains, throwing a kiss with her right hand; her left holds a paper lying on the window-sill. One of the painter's best works.—Art Journal (1885), 217.

Throwing a Kiss, Jean Baptiste Greuze, Alfred de Rothschild, London

KLEIN, JOHANN ADAM, born in Nuremberg, Nov. 24, 1792, died in Munich, May 21, 1875. Genre, landscape, and animal painter, studied first in Nuremberg under J. Caspar van Bemmel and A. Gabler, then from 1811 at the Vienna Academy; after living in Frankfort, Vienna, Rome, Naples, and Nuremberg, settled in Munich in 1837. His compositions are full of life and variety. Member of Munich Academy in 1867. Works: On the Danube; Market Scene; Berchtesgaden; Halt before an Inn; Span of Oxen in Campagna (1821), Gotha Museum; Hungarian Carters (1828), Wallachian Freight-Wagon (1829), Animal-Tamers before Tavern (1830), National Gallery, Berlin; (1821), Gotha Museum; Field Smithy, View on Bridge of Salara near Rome (1821), Schleissheim Gallery; View on the Tiber near Rome (1822), New Pinakothek, Munich; Russian Freight-wagon and Cossacks, Hunting Dog (1823), Wall Ruins, Freight-wagon with Seven Horses (1856), Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Wallachian Carters Resting on the Danube (1834-38), Königsberg Museum; Gypsy Camp (1856), Kunsthalle, Hamburg.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 95; Dioskuren (1862), 193; Illustr. Zeitg. (1875), i. 471; Jordan (1885), ii. 117; Kunst-Chronik, xi. 270; Regnet, i. 287.

KLEIN, JOHANN (EVANGELIST), born in Vienna in 1823. Fresco painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Führich. Went for a short time to Venice, and then studied Byzantine and mediæval wall-paintings in monasteries and churches in the Bukowina, in Carinthia, Soest, Brunswick, Cracow, and in and near Vienna. Member of, and professor at, Vienna Academy. Works: Wall-Paintings in Episcopal Chapel at Czernowitz and in St. Mary's on Capitol at Cologne; Glass Paintings in St. Antonio's, Padua, in St. Stephen's, Vienna, in Kempten and Elten on the Rhine, in Münster, Bochold and Lüdinghausen, Westphalia; in Cathedral at Linz, in Nancy, in Hungary, etc.—Müller, 299; Wurzbach, xii. 50.

KLEIN, WILHELM, born in Düsseldorf in 1821. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Schirmer; perfected himself on journeys through various parts of Germany, in Tyrol, Switzerland, North Italy, Belgium, and Holland. Works: Wood Landscape (1844); Mountainous Landscape (1845), Brunswick Art Union; Winter Landscape, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Rocky Valley (1852), Düsseldorf Art Union; Forest Brook (1853), Königsberg Art Union; King's Oak near Arnsberg, Inn Valley (1855); Road to Village, Cologne Art Union; Carters' Tavern (1858), Berlin Art Union; Lake Garda (1858); Inn Valley (1859); View in the Engadin (1863); Sea-Coast, Liège Art Union; Winter in Tyrol (1865), Bremen Art Union; Weinburg (1868); Lake Hechtsee in Bavaria;