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 Mill-Pond; Park; Beech-Wood; Landscape with Wedding Procession; do. with Castle; Mill on Lugano Lake; Meersburg on Lake Constance; Westphalian Landscape (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Müller, 421.

POHLE, (FRIEDRICH) LEON, born in Leipsic, Dec. 1, 1841. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Dresden and Antwerp Academies, and of Weimar Art-School; travelled in Germany, Belgium, and France. Since 1877 professor at Dresden Academy. Works: Margaret before the Jewellery Box; Elegy; Portrait of Poet Julius Grosse; do. of Ludwig Richter (1879), Leipsic Museum, and (1880), National Gallery, Berlin; do. of Geographer Peschel, and of Ercole Torneamenti, Dresden Gallery; do. of Baron von Nostitz-Wallwitz (1883); Prince George of Saxony's Children (1884); Thuringian Woman (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Jordan (1885), ii. 169; Müller, 421; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 628; xix. 681.

POIDEVIN. See Le Poittevin.

POINTELIN, AUGUSTE EMMANUEL, born at Arbois (Jura) in 1839. Landscape painter, pupil of Maire; was a schoolmaster until 1866, when he took up painting. Medals: 3d class, 1878; 2d class, 1881. Works: Wells of Moustier (1874); Plateau of the Jura in Autumn (1876); Valley in the Jura (1877); Meadow in Côte d'Or (1878); Grove in the Morning, Willow in the Evening (1879); September Evening (1880); Slopes of Jura (1881); Arbour, Rocky Hills (1882); Fallow Land in the Jura, End of the Woods (1883);	Rocky Path, Evening in the Woods (1884);	Forest Border, Height on the Coast (1885);	Meadow in Jura Mountains, Group of Trees at Dawn (1886).

POLE, CARDINAL, portrait, Sebastian del Piombo, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; canvas, H. 3 ft. 7 in. × 3 ft. Sitting, with left hand on the arm of his chair; dressed in a red toque and cap and white stole. Painted under Paul III. (1535-49); a magnificent canvass, long assigned to Raphael; formerly in the galleries of the Chevalier de Clerville and of the Comte d'Armagnac. Engraved by Nicolas de Larmessin, and by Sanders.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 356; Descr. de l'Ermitage, i. 24.

POLEMON, painter, of Alexandria, mentioned by Pliny (xxxv. 40 [146]), as not without reputation.—Brunn, ii. 288.

POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO. See Caravaggio.

POLLICE VERSO. See Gladiators.

POLLACK, LEOPOLD, born at Lodenitz, Bohemia, Nov. 8, 1806, died in Rome, Oct. 16, 1880. Genre painter, pupil of Prague (under Bergler) and Vienna Academies, went in 1831 to Rome and painted Italian life under the influence and in the manner of Riedel; visited Vienna in 1846 and became naturalized in Rome in 1853. Works: Shepherd Boy; Death of Moses; Boaz and Ruth; The Harem; Shepherdess with Lamb; Zuleika (after Byron), Villa Rosenstein, Stuttgart; Cupid riding on a Turtle; Italian Shepherds (1835), Female Pilgrim (1836), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Curious Girls (1838); Rebekah (1844); Head of a Bard (1850); Portrait of the Painter August Riedel (1851), New Pinakothek, Munich; Shepherd Boy in Roman Campagna, Harrach Gallery, Vienna; Nymphs Caressing (1858); Esmeralda (1865); Malicious Albanese Women (1868); Melusina; Chiara and her Sister; Diana; Carnival in Rome; Preciosa; Disturbed Sleep.—D. Kunstbl. (1850), 28, 367; Nagler, Mon., i. 357; Wurzbach, xxiii. 75.

POLLAJUOLO, ANTONIO and PIETRO, Antonio born in Florence in 1433, died there in 1498; Pietro born there in 1443, died there in or before 1496. Florentine school; sons of Jacopo d'Antonio, a goldsmith. Antonio, whose portrait is given, closed his apprenticeship with his father in 1459, opened a workshop in Florence, and