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 Gallery; Crabmonger (1723), Man at Break-*fast, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Immerzeel, ii. 236; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 545; Kramm, iv. 1142.

MONLEON Y TORRES, Don RAFAEL, born in Spain; contemporary. Marine painter. Works: Roadstead of Alicante (1881), Madrid Museum; Canal in Holland (1884), Ateneo, ib.; Shipwreck in Port of Loredo (1884).—La Ilustracion (1884), i. 58, 99, 109, 395.

MONNOYER, JEAN BAPTISTE, born at Lille, July 19, 1634, died in London, Feb. 16, 1699. Flemish school; flower and still-life painter, studied in Lille, went early to Paris, where in 1665 he became member, and in 1679 councillor, of the Academy. Favoured with numerous orders from Louis XIV. and the nobility; he was called to England by Lord Montague, whose house, besides others, he decorated; often painted backgrounds for Kneller's portraits. Works: Flower- and Fruit-pieces in the Louvre, Paris (8), in Museums of Arras, Grenoble, Lille (2), Lyons (4), Montpellier (3), Nantes, Orléans (2), Rennes (2), Rouen (3), Toulon (2), Troyes; Carlsruhe Gallery (2); Old Pinakothek, Munich.—Bellier, ii. 110; Ch. Blanc, École française, i.; Dezallier, ii. 332; Jal, 880; Lejeune, Guide, i. 190; Michiels, ix. 293.

MONSEIGNEUR'S ANTECHAMBER (L'antichambre de Monseigneur), Georges Jean Vibert, M. Botchine, Moscow. An antechamber in a cardinal's palace, with several persons awaiting an audience; at left, a pretty peasant girl, seated on a sofa, holding in her lap a basket containing a live hen, with which a jolly monk, sitting beside her, is playing; at right, an austere-*looking friar, with an open breviary in his hands, is peeping suspiciously around from behind a column, as if he feared that something wrong was going on; in background, two other persons conversing. Salon, 1876.

MONT, DEODATUS VAN DER (Delmont), born at Saint Trond, Belgium, baptized Sept. 24, 1582, died at Antwerp, Nov. 24, 1644. History painter, pupil of Rubens, who honoured him with his particular friendship, and whose travelling companion he was in Italy in 1600-1608; master of the Antwerp guild in 1608. Was employed as painter and architect by the Duke of Neubourg, who ennobled him, and as an engineer by Philip IV. of Spain. Van Dyck painted his portrait. Works: Transfiguration of Christ, Antwerp Museum; do., Nancy Museum.—Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 107; Michiels, viii. 213; Rooses (Reber), 271; Van den Branden, 747.

MONTAGNA, BARTOLOMMEO, born at Orzinovi, near Brescia, about 1450, died at Vicenza, Oct. 11, 1523. Venetian school; resident of Vicenza in 1480, and painted an altarpiece there in 1483. Bred probably in the local school of Vicenza, he was early attracted by Bellini and Carpaccio, but his style was not fully developed until he visited Padua (1491), where he studied Mantegna. From Padua he went to Verona, and in 1496 settled down to steady work in Vicenza, where he was held in great esteem, and accounted the first resident master. Among his best works are the Madonna and Saints (1499), Brera, Milan; Madonna, in S. Maria in Vanzo, Padua; Madonna and Saints, Venice Academy; do. (1487), Bergamo Gallery; do. (1499), Milan Academy; do. (1500), Berlin Museum; and the Pietà (1500), Church of Monte Berico. Other examples in the Vicenza Gallery, in the