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 *ers, Rochester; Fisher Girl, W. B. Bement, Philadelphia; Prayer, H. L. Dousman, St. Louis; do., Daniel Catlin, ib.; Poverty, S. A. Coale, ib.—Bellier, ii. 239; Claretie, Peintres (1874), 216.

PERRÉAL, JEAN, called Jehan de Paris, flourished in 1455-1527. French school; battle painter; mentioned in 1455 as in the service of the Duc d'Orléans; in 1489 the city of Lyons entrusted to him decorations for the entry of Charles VIII. Court-painter to the latter in 1483-98, and in 1498-1515 to Louis XII., whom he accompanied in his Italian campaign. His latest biographer, Bancel, attributes to him a Betrothal of Charles VIII. with Ann of Brittany, recently presented by him to the Louvre; also a Madonna della Misericordia, in the Museum at Puy, and the Magdalen, assigned to Rogier van der Weyden, in the National Gallery, London.—Bancel, Jehan Perréal (Paris, 1885); Bellier, ii. 232; Gaz. des B. Arts (1861), xi. 380; (1885), xxxi. 322; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 460; Kunstfreund (1885), No. 7; Renouvier, Jehan de Paris (Paris, 1861); Schnaase, viii. 330; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xxi. 326.

PERRET, AIMÉ, born at Lyons in 1847. Genre painter, pupil of Guichard, Vollon, and of the École des Beaux Arts of Lyons. Medal, 3d class, 1877. Works: Return to Stable in a Snow Storm (1869); Women on Banks of the Rhône (1870); Fisherman's Daughter, Return from Fishing (1873); Between two Fires (1875); Burgundian Wedding in 18th Century (1876); A Baptism (1877), Lyons Museum; A Dream in the Grass, Portrait of Mme. Judic (1878); Stirrup Cup (1879); The Eucharist in Burgundy (1879), Luxembourg Museum; Conflagration in a Village (1880); Seedsman (1881); Vintage in Burgundy, Rural Postman (1882); Maiden of the Fields (1883); Sunday in Burgundy (1884); Spring of Life (1885); Shepherd's Betrothed, Mower (1886).—Bellier, ii. 239.

PERRIER, FRANÇOIS, called Il Borgognone, born at Saint-Jean-de-Losne (Burgundy) in 1590, died in Paris in July, 1656. French school; genre painter and engraver, pupil of Lanfranco in Rome, where he studied in 1620-30. After a second visit to Rome, which he finally left in 1645, he became one of the twelve founders, called Ancients, of the French Academy of Painting and Sculpture (1648). Works: Acis and Galatea, Orpheus before Pluto, Æneas and Warriors fighting Harpies (1645), Louvre; David offering Thanks to God after Victory over Goliath, Lyons Museum.—Bellier, ii. 241; Ch. Blanc, École française; Jal, 958; Mémoires inédits, i. 127; Villot, Cat. Louvre.

PERRIN, JEAN CHARLES NICAISE, born in Paris in 1754, died there, Sept. 23, 1831. Genre painter, pupil of Doyen and Durameau. Won the second grand prix in 1775. Director of the free school of drawing and mathematics; Member of Academy, 1787. Works: Venus healing the Wound of Æneas (1787), France consecrating Captured Flags to Our Lady of Glory (1806), Louvre; Death of the Virgin (1789), Palais de Trianon; Cyrus condemned to Death by Astyages (1802), Palace of Versailles; Portrait of Marshal Lannes (1810), Museum, ib.; Assumption (1804), Montpellier Cathedral; Pauline, wife of Seneca, refusing to survive her Husband, Dijon Museum.—Bellier, ii. 243; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Lejeune, Guide, i. 388.

PERRY, E. WOOD, born in Boston, Mass., in 1831. Genre painter, pupil of Emanuel Leutze in Düsseldorf, and of Couture in Paris. Visited Europe in 1852-60; studied and sketched in London, Paris, Düsseldorf, Rome, and Venice. In 1860 returned to America, made a tour of the South and West, and in 1864 visited the Sandwich Islands. Elected an A.N.A. in 1868, and N.A. in 1869. Studio in New York. Works in oil: The Weaver, Fireside Stories (1869); Lost Art (1871); Old Story