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 S. Abondio, Parma, and Entombment, Brera, Milan. His nephew, Cavaliere Euclide Trotti, was his pupil and imitator. He was convicted of high treason when young, and is said to have died of poison in prison.—Lanzi, ii. 445; Ch. Blanc, École lombarde; Lavice, 154.

TROY, FRANÇOIS DE, born at Toulouse in February, 1654, died in Paris, May 1, 1730. French school; history and portrait painter, son and pupil of Nicolas de Troy (portrait painter at Toulouse in 17th century) and brother of Jean de Troy (history and portrait painter at Toulouse, born 1640, died 17—); pupil also of Nicolas Loir and of Claude Lefèbvre. Member of Academy in 1674, professor in 1693, director in 1708, and adjunct-rector in 1722. Works: Portraits of Duchesse d'Orléans, Jules Mansart, and Nicolas Belle, Versailles Museum; Bathsheba, Angers Museum; Woman and Child, Grenoble Museum; Woman Reading, Marseilles Museum; Ariadne and Bacchus, Montpellier Museum; Portrait of Duchesse de Maine, Orléans Museum; Nunc Dimittis, Assumption, Ascension, Rouen Museum; Magdalen, Dream of St. Joseph, Guardian Angel, Toulouse Museum; Parting of Hector and Andromache, Troyes Museum; Portrait of Duc de Maine (1716), Dresden Museum.—Bellier, ii. 597.

TROY, JEAN FRANÇOIS DE, born in Paris, baptized Jan. 27, 1679, died in Rome, Jan. 26, 1752. French school; genre painter, son and pupil of François de Troy. Having failed to gain the prix de Rome (1702) his father sent him at his own expense to Italy, where he was pensioned by the king, for three or four years, and divided his time between work and amusement until he was forced to return home in 1706. Member of Academy, 1708; assistant professor, 1716; professor, 1719; in 1727 he shared with Lemoine a prize competed for by members of the Academy; in 1737 he was appointed secretary to the king, and in 1738 director of the French Academy at Rome. Prince of the Academy of St. Luke. Works: Henri IV. holding the First Chapter of the Order of the Holy Ghost (1732), Swooning of Esther (1737), Toilet of Esther (1738), Male Portraits (2), Louvre; Portrait of Marquis de Marignan, two others, Besançon Museum; Pilate washing his Hands, Dijon Museum; Apollo and Diana destroying the Children of Niobe, Montpellier Museum; Diana at the Bath, Nancy Museum; Punishment of Psyche, and others, Nîmes Museum; Portrait of Abbé Desfriches, Orléans Museum; do. of Duchesse de la Force, Rouen Museum; Plague of Marseilles, Marseilles Museum; Martyrdom of St. Stephen, Christ in the Garden, Chapel of St. Suaire, Besançon; Lady at Breakfast in a Park (1723), Berlin Museum; Lot and his Daughters, Susanna and the Elders (2), Portrait of Artist's Wife, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Bellier, ii. 597; Ch. Blanc, École française; Jal, 1207; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Lejeune, Guide, i. 350; Wurzbach, 17.

TROY, WAR OF, ancient pictures of. See Calliphon, Cleanthes, Polygnotus, Theodorus.

TROY, WAR OF, Peter Cornelius and assistants, Glyptothek, Munich; frescos on ceiling and walls of the Trojan Hall (Trojanischer Saal). Ceiling: Centre picture, circular, Marriage of Peleus and Thetis, painted by Schlotthauer; around this, in a circle, are stucco reliefs, by Schwanthaler, of the twelve great gods and goddesses of Greece. Beyond these are four pictures of similar shape and size: Judgment of Paris, Marriage of Menelaus and Helen, Rape of Helen, Sacrifice of Iphigenia, all painted