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 130; Allgem. K. C., x. 737; Dioskuren (1860), 101, 107; The Studio (1886), ii. 46.

PILS, ISIDORE ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE, born in Paris, Nov. 7, 1815, died at Douarnenez, Sept. 3, 1875. History painter, pupil of Lethière, of Picot, and of the École des Beaux Arts, where he won the grand prix de Rome in 1838; after five years in Rome he returned to France, and in 1849 attracted attention by his Rouget de l'Isle singing the Marseillaise. This was the beginning of a highly successful career. Member of Institute, 1868. Medals: 2d class, 1846, 1855; 1st class, 1857, 1867; Medal of honour, 1861; L. of Honour, 1857; Officer, 1867. Works: St. Peter healing the Lame Man (1838); Christ preaching from Simon's Boat, Incident of St. Bartholomew (1846); Death of Mary Magdalen (1847, bought by State); Passage of the Berezina, Bacchantes and Satyrs, Women and Satyrs Bathing (1848); Rouget de l'Isle (1849), formerly in Luxembourg Museum; Gondola (1849); Death of a Sister of Charity, Holy Family (1850); Athenian Slaves in Syracuse, Soldiers giving Bread to Poor (1852); Prayer in Hospital (1853); Trench before Sebastopol (1855); French Troops disembarking in Crimea (1858); Zouaves in Trenches before Sebastopol, Shooting Practice at Vincennes (1859); Artillery Practice, The Zouave (1860), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Artillery Men, B. Wall, Providence; Zouaves behind Redoubt, Mr. Wigglesworth, Boston; Battle of the Alma (1861, bought by State); Reception by Emperor and Empress in Algiers in 1860 (1867); Return of Hunters to Castle (1869); Tuileries in 1871 (1873); Holy Thursday in an Italian Convent (1874).—Becq de Fouquières, Pils, sa vie, etc. (Paris, 1876); Bellier, ii. 275; Claretie, Peintres (1882), i. 145; Hamerton, French Painters; Gaz. des B. Arts (1875), xii. 481; L'Art (1875), iii. 48; (1876), v. 256; Revue des Deux Mondes (1876), xiii. 864; Meyer, Gesch., 647; Kunst-Chronik, x. 810.

PINCHART, ÉMIL AUGUSTE, born at Cambrai; contemporary. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Gérôme. Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works: Worship of Ibis (1868); Venus Wounded (1870); Rendez-vous (1872); The First Tooth, New Year's Day (1878); The Bath (1879); Education of Bacchus (1880); Temptation of St. Anthony, Return from Festival (1882); At the Fountain (1884); Market Corner at Geneva (1885); Tobias and the Angel (1886).

PINTURICCHIO (Little Painter), BERNARDINO, born at Perugia in 1454 (?), died at Siena, Dec. 11, 1513. Umbrian school; real name Bernardino di Betti Biagi; sometimes called also Lo Sordicchio on account of his deafness and the insignificance of his personal appearance. Representing Perugian art as practised by Bonfigli and Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, he almost always painted in tempera, and worked in the spirit of the early Umbrian painters. He was all his life, says Charles Blanc, what Raphael was at twenty years old; for while the latter enlarged his horizon and developed his genius, he remained a faithful follower of Perugino. In 1484 Pinturicchio became the partner of Perugino at Rome, and worked with him in the Sistine Chapel. He then decorated a chapel in S. M. del Popolo with an Adoration of the Shepherds and scenes from the life of St. Jerome (1485), laid out the choir ceiling in the church, and also painted frescos in the Palazzo Belvedere and the Palazzo di S. Apostolo, now mostly destroyed. His frescos in the Cathedral of Orvieto (1491-92) and those of