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 the Antwerp Museum is a capital genre scene: The Philosophers.—Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers, 379; Van den Branden, 1037.

TASSAERT, (NICOLAS FRANÇOIS) OCTAVE, born in Paris, July 26, 1800, died there, by suicide, April 22, 1874. History and portrait painter, pupil of Pierre Girard, Guillon Lethière, and of the École des Beaux Arts. Medals: 2d class, 1838; 1st class, 1849; 3d class, Exposition universelle, 1855. Works: Death of Correggio (1834); Vicar of Wakefield (1835); Death of Heloïse (1838); Diana at the Bath (1842); Christ in the Garden of Olives (1844); Erigone, Slave Merchant (1846); Temptation of St. Anthony (1849); Unhappy Family (1849), Luxembourg Museum; Gardens of Armida (1850); Communion of Early Christians in Catacombs (1852), Bordeaux Museum; Sleep of Jesus, Son of Louis XVI. in the Temple (1855); Magdalen, Pygmalion and Galatea (1857); Funeral of Dagobert in St. Denis (1838), Louis X., Portrait of Gaspard de Saulx, do. of Charles le Blanchefort, do. of Philippe de Comines, Versailles Museum; Heaven and Hell (1850), Artist's Portrait, Ariadne, Convalescent Mother, Young Woman with Glass of Wine, Painter's Studio, Suicide, Return of Prodigal Son, and others, Montpellier Museum. Alexandre Dumas has forty-five of Tassaert's pictures and sketches, and many others are owned in Paris.—Claretie, Peintres, etc. (1882), i. 25; Bellier, ii. 544; Gaz. des B. Arts (1886), xxxiii. 28.

TASSI, AGOSTINO, born in Perugia in 1566, died in Rome in May, 1644. Roman school. Real name Buonamici, but adopted that of the Marquis Tassi, whose page he had been; pupil of Paul Brill, under whose care he became an excellent landscape painter. He was a man of infamous character, who paid the penalty of his crimes in the galleys at Leghorn; when the part of his sentence condemning him to hard labour had been remitted, he soon made himself known throughout Italy as a painter of marine views. After his liberation he was employed in painting frescos in the Quirinal and in the Palazzo de' Lancellotti. Tassi was the master of Claude Lorrain.—Lanzi, i. 484; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne.

TATKELEFF, VOGISNY, born in Russia, about 1813. Battle painter, son of a serf in the Borissov Government; attracted by his sketches the attention of his master, who educated him, but was forced by the successor in the estate into the army, where he served fifteen years; in 1854 took part in the Crimean War; drudged for his livelihood until 1870, when a tourist, who saw his sketch-book, induced him to paint some pictures for the Exposition in Moscow in 1873. These, which represented scenes in the Crimean War, brought him into prominence, and they were bought for 60,000 rubles for the Winter Palace of St. Petersburg.

TATTEGRAIN, FRANCIS, born at Péronne (Somme); contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, and engraver; pupil of C. Crauck, Lepic, Jules Lefebvre, and Boulanger. Medals: 2d class, Paris and Munich, in 1883. Works: Herring Fishing, Coup d'épaule (1879); Return from Fishing (1880); Femme aux épaves, Artist's Portrait (1881); We are Lost, Landing the Herrings (1882); The Mourners at Étaples (1883); Convalescent (1884).

TAUNAY, NICOLAS ANTOINE, born in Paris, Feb. 10, 1755, died there, March 20, 1830. History and landscape painter, pupil of Brenet, Casanova, and Lépicié. Won grand prix de Rome in 1784, and spent three years there with the help of his patron, M. Angiviller. Won grand medal, and became member of Academy in 1796. Medal, 1803; L. of Honour; Order of Christ in Portugal. In 1816 he went with