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 painter, pupil of Cogniet, Pils, Mazerolle, and Oury. Medal, 2d class, 1885. Works: Mephistopheles and the Scholar (1868); Beheading of St. John (1870); Environs of Douarnenez (1879); Last Supper (1880); On the Stone Beach (1881); Portraits (1885).

MATHIEU, AUGUSTE, born at Dijon in 1810, died in Paris, March, 1864. Architecture painter, pupil of Ciceri; painted interiors of public buildings. Medals: 2d class, 1842; L. of Honour, 1859. Works: Interior of Church of Nuremberg (1838); St. Nicholas de Brou (1842); Ratisbon; Picardy; Andernach; Hall of the Dijon Museum; Cathedral of Ulm; Cathedral of Angoulême; Mysterious House of Adam Krafft in Nuremberg; St. Géreon in Cologne (1859); Chapel of Mont St. Bernard.—Bellier, ii. 52; Larousse.

MATHIEU, LAMBERT JOSEPH, born at Bure, Belgium, May 5, 1804, died at Louvain in 1861. History painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy under Mattheus Ignatius van Bree, then studied in Paris; returned in 1833, and became director and first professor of Louvain Academy in 1834; member of Antwerp Academy in 1835. Knight of Order of Leopold. Works: The Flood (1833), Brussels Museum; Death of Rubens, Philip the Good decorating his Lady Love with Order of Golden Fleece (1834); Christ on the Cross (1836), Jesuit Church, Louvain; Maria of Burgundy thrown from her Horse at the Chase (1864); Holy Family; Isabella of Croy serving Breakfast for Louis XI. and Quentin Durward (1837); Castellan caressing Falcon, Falcon Chase (1838); Education of the Virgin, Assumption (1839); Raphael and the Fornarina; Daughter of Jairus; Jacob and Rachel (1842).—Immerzeel, ii. 207; Raczynski, iii. 450.

MATHILDE, PRINCESS, born at Trieste, May 27, 1820. Genre painter in water-*colours, daughter of King Jérôme Bonaparte, pupil of Eugène Giraud. Medal, 1865. Works: Head Study (1864); Intrigue under the Portico of Ducal Palace in Venice (1865); Young Girl's Head (1865), formerly in Luxembourg Museum; Jewess of Algiers (1866), Lille Museum; Turco's Head (1867).—Bellier, ii. 54.

MATOUT, LOUIS, born at Renwez (Ardennes), March 19, 1811. Historical and mythological genre painter, pupil of the Art School at Charleville; was at first an architect; painted mediocre decorative works, such as frescos in one of the rooms of the Louvre. Medals: 3d class, 1853, 1857; L. of Honour, 1857. Works: Pan and Nymphs; Woman of Boghari torn by Lioness (1855), Luxembourg Museum; Rich and Poor (1861), Châteauroux Museum; Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne (1875); Venus Pandemos (1876); Christ at Simon's House (1879), La Rochelle Cathedral; Perseus delivering Andromeda (1884); Nymph asleep in Pan's Forest (1885); mural paintings in the École de Médecine (1857); do. in the Lariboisière Hospital, and Imperial Gallery, Louvre.—Bellier, ii. 55; Du Camp, Beaux Arts, 27; Gaz. des B. Arts (1861), x. 94.

MATSYS. See Massys.

MATTACCIO, IL. See Sodoma.

MATTEIS, PAOLO DE, born at Cilento, Naples, in 1662, died at Naples in 1728. Neapolitan school; history painter, pupil of Luca Giordano and of Giovanni Maria Morandi; worked in Rome for Popes Clement XI., Clement XII., and Benedict XIII.; invited to France, he acquired during a residence of three years celebrity at court and throughout the kingdom. After his return he deviated from the style of Giordano, leaning more towards the Roman school. Many of his frescos and easel pictures are in Genoa and Naples, and he painted much at Monte Cassino in 1692, and in 1706-9. Works: Scenes from Tasso's Jerusalem (3), Aschaffenburg Gallery; Death