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especial merits. His design and colouring are generally pleasing, but his handling is weak and his feeling superficial. He was a close imitator of Guido Reni. Works: Madonna, Palazzo Doria, Rome; Annunciation, The Virgin, Turin Gallery; Adoration of the Shepherds, Basle Museum; Magdalen in Meditation, Musée Rath, Geneva; Madonna (2), The Virgin contemplating the Infant Christ, Dresden Museum; Christ on Mount of Olives, Fürstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen; St. John in Patmos (1698), Sleeping Child, Portrait of a Cardinal, Old Pinakothek, Munich; The Virgin with the Child in the Cradle, Allegory on Vanity, Wood Nymph Bathing, Madonna, Children by Vase with Flowers, Schleissheim Gallery; Holy Family, Weimar Museum; Death of St. Joseph (1676), Presentation in the Temple, Holy Family (1704), The Trinity, Museum, Vienna; Bathsheba, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Repose in Egypt, Harrach Gallery, ib.; Holy Family (2), Czernin Gallery, ib.; Adoration of the Shepherds, Holy Family, Annunciation, Portrait of Pope Clement IX., several others, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Madonna in Glory, Hagar and Ishmael, Madrid Museum; Apollo pursuing Daphne, Madonna, Brussels Museum; Portrait of a Cardinal, National Gallery, London.—Vasari, ed. Le Mon., viii. 40, 45; Burckhardt, 170, 661, 670, 764, 768.

MARC, (JEAN) AUGUSTE, born at Metz, July 12, 1818, died at Suresnes (Seine), May, 1886. History and genre painter, pupil of Drölling, of Delaroche, and of the École des Beaux Arts. L. of Honour in 1868, when he also became director of L'Illustration, of which he was then one of the most esteemed contributors. Works: Soap-bubbles (1848); Allegorical Figure of France (1855), Metz Museum; Assassination of Duc de Guise, 1563 (1857); Mozart playing the Violin; Eve Asleep; Sultana at the Bath; Christ in the Prætorium, Cathedral of Mexico.—Bellier, ii. 25; Chronique des Arts (1886), 165.

MARC, WILHELM, born at Landshut, Bavaria, Oct. 9, 1839. Genre painter, pupil of Munich Academy and of Erich Correns; has repeatedly visited Italy; paints in the manner of the old Venetian and Dutch masters. Works: Decameron; Housewife; Concert; Aphrodite; Alpine Shepherdess; City and Country (1874); Children in Village Churchyard, Venus Anadyomene (1876); Evening in Convent Garden; Recess in Boarding-School; Morning Prayer; A Question (1883); Procession at Wackersberg, Music at Eve on the Alp (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Müller, 352; Illustr. Zeitg. (1879), ii. 548; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 213; xx. 745.

MARCEAU, DEATH-BED OF, Jean Paul Laurens, M. Turquet, Paris; canvas, H. 8 ft. × 10 ft. François Séverin des Graviers Marceau, division commander in the French army, was mortally wounded near Altenkirchen, Rhenish Prussia, Sept. 20, 1796; and was carried within the Austrian lines, where he died three days later, universally regretted, even by his enemies. The picture represents his body in full uniform upon his death-bed, surrounded by several French officers at left and the Austrian staff-officers at right. Salon, 1877; exhibited in New York, 1886.

MARCELLIS. See Marseus.

MARCELLO, NICCOLÒ, portrait of Doge, Titian, Vatican; canvas, H. 4 ft. 11 in. × 2 ft. 11 in. Painted about 1508. From Aldrovandi Collection, Bologna.—C. & C., Titian, i. 112.

MARCH, ESTÉBAN, born in Valencia about 1590, died there in 1660. Spanish school; pupil of Pedro Orrente, from whom he learned to colour in the Venetian manner. Painted principally battle scenes and coarse subjects, but sometimes also religious compositions. Most of his pictures