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 Child (1837), Lisieux Museum; Entombment (1837), Liège Museum; Divine Mercy (1839); Ransom of Captive Christians (1840), St. Boniface imploring the Virgin (1841), Église de la Chapelle, Brussels; Descent from the Cross (1841), Église de Thourout, ib.; Entombment, St. Andrew's, ib.; Christ bewailing Jerusalem (1844), Vatican, Rome; Prisoner's Wife, St. Cecilia's last Song, Abundance, Revery (1848); Falling Leaves (1849); Studio Scene, National Museum, Amsterdam; Fourteen Scenes in Christ's Passion (1851), Église de la Chapelle, Brussels.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, vi. 804; Immerzeel, i. 230; Kramm, ii. 466.

EYLAU, BATTLEFIELD OF, Antoine Jean Gros, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 17 ft. 6 in. × 26 ft. 4 in.; signed, dated 1808. Napoleon visiting the battlefield of Eylau (Feb. 9, 1807), before reviewing his troops. Near the centre, the Emperor, in a pelisse of gray satin bordered with fur, raises his hand with a gesture indicating grief at the sight of the dead and wounded around him. Among his staff are, at right, Soult, Davoust, and Murat; at left, Berthier, Bessières, and Caulaincourt. Kneeling Lithuanians implore his pity. In background, Eylau in flames, lines of French troops with prisoners defiling before them, and the dead on the battlefield partly hidden by snow. Salon, 1808. Gros received 16,000 fr. Engraved by Vallot, Oortman.—Villot, Cat. Louvre.

EZDORF (Etzdorf), CHRISTIAN (JOHANN CHRISTIAN MICHAEL), born at Pösneck, Meiningen, Feb. 28, 1801, died in Munich Dec. 18, 1851. Landscape painter, pupil of Munich Academy. Travelled extensively, both on the Continent and in England. Studied Ruysdael and Everdingen, and loved to paint Nature in her more sombre aspects. He was appointed court-painter to the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and member of Stockholm Academy. Works: Waterfall with Mill (1836); Landscape with Castle in Park (1837); Iron Works by Waterfall (1840), New Pinakothek, Munich; Storm (1841); Huntsman by Beech Trees (1842); Karlssteg in Ziller Valley (1850); Fisherman's Hut on Lake, Landscape with Bathing Girls.—Andresen, iv. 249; Brockhaus, vi. 407; Nagler, Mon., i. 1033.

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

Vision of Ezekiel, Raphael, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.

EZEKIEL, VISION OF, Raphael, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; wood, H. 1 ft, 4 in. × 1 ft. Jehovah, in a glory of light and of seraphim, seated like Olympian Jove upon an eagle, the symbol of St. John, with a winged lion and bull, symbols of SS. Mark and Luke, beneath him, and the angel, symbolic of St. Matthew, beside him, extends his arms, upheld by two angels, to bless the world, seen at an immeasurable depth below; through the clouds a ray of light falls on Ezekiel and his steed in the distance. Painted about 1517 for Count Vincenzo Ercolani of Bologna. Carried to Paris in 1799; returned in 1815. Copy formerly in De Launay, then in Orleans Collection, sold to Lord Berwick for £800; now at Stratton, seat of Sir Thomas