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 Agnes, Saint Eustache, ib.; Decorations of one of the grand salons de réception in the Hôtel de Ville (burned under the Commune); Ceiling of Victory in the Palace of the Tuileries (destroyed under the Commune). He made also designs for Gobelin tapestry for the Apollo Gallery, Louvre.—Bellier, ii. 638.

VAUTIER, BENJAMIN, born at Morges on Lake Geneva, April 24, 1829. Genre painter, pupil at Geneva of Hébert and of Lugardon, then (1850) in Düsseldorf of the Academy and of Jordan; studied peasant life in the Black Forest and in the Berne Highlands, then attracted by Knaus went in 1856 to Paris, and six months later settled in Düsseldorf, where he at once achieved a brilliant success with his Church Scene, exhibited at the historical exhibition at Munich in 1858, and has since attained a position by the side of Knaus as one of the great painters of popular life. He has made also masterly illustrations to works by Auerbach and Immermann. Member of Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Antwerp, and Amsterdam Academies. Professor in 1866. Gold medals: Berlin, 1864; Paris, 1865, 1866; 2d class, 1867; 1st class, 1878. Order of Francis Joseph, 1868; Order of Red Eagle; Order of St. Michael, 1869; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Church Scene (1858); Auction in Old Castle (1859); Sunday Morning Toilet; Women coming from Church find their Husbands at the Inn (1862), Leipsic Museum; Sewing School; The Tutor; Peasant and Broker, Involuntary Confession, Basle Museum; Saying Grace, Berne Museum; Peasants at Trial, Sick Mother, Musée Rath, Geneva; Sunday in Suabia; Peasants in a Picture Gallery; Young and Old; The Sisters; Repast after Funeral, Cologne Museum; First Dancing Lesson (1868), National Gallery, Berlin; Antiquary in Peasant's Cottage; Sail over Brienz Lake to a Funeral; Farewell of Dying Peasant Woman; Interrupted Brawl (1869); Entrapped Rat, Stettin Museum; Toast to the Bride (Rococo Costume, 1870), Hamburg Gallery; Ruse for Ruse, Public Dinner (1871); Burial (1872); Consulting his Lawyer, W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Visit at the Fireside (1873); Quarrel at Chess; Invitation to the Dance; Departure from Home (1875); Before the Meeting (1876); Little Barefoot; Intermission at Alsatian Wedding (1878), Dresden Gallery; The Mayor's Annual Dinner (Exposition universelle, 1878), John G. Johnson, Philadelphia; Waiting Room at Post Station; Arrest of Usurer (1879); Visit of Young Couple (1880); Obstinacy (1882), Düsseldorf Gallery; Botanist, Alsatian Woman (1882).—Illustr. Zeitg. (1878),	ii. 463; (1879), ii. 274; (1881), ii. 10; (1882), ii. 531; Jordan (1885), ii. 229; Kunst-Chronik, i. 85; v. 94, 143; vi. 119; viii. 60, 627, 807; ix. 450, 578, 820; x. 139, 459; xi. 74, 273; xvii. 337; xviii. 740; Land und Meer (1869), i. 54; Br. Meyer, stud. u. Krit., 246; Müller, 531; Pecht, iii. 351; Reber-Pecht, iii. 341; Zeitschr. f. b. K, iii. 166, 279; iv. 17, 177; vi. 148; ix. (Mittheilungen, ii. 28); xii. 259 (Mit., v. 50).

VAYSON, PAUL, born at Gordes (Vaucluse); contemporary. Genre and flower painter, pupil of Gleyre and Laurens. Medals: 3d class, 1875; 2d class, 1879; L. of Honour, 1886. Works: Hay Making in Provence (1868); Sheep in Provence (1879);	Departure of the Herd (1880); Herds coming down from Mountains (1881); Herd Returning (1882); Fair of St. Trinité in Provence (1883); Threshing Corn; Hunter of Camargue; Sleeping Shepherdess; Spring (1884); Truffle Gatherers, Bull in Pasture (1886).

VECCHIA, PIETRO DELLA, born in 1605, died there in 1678. Venetian school; pupil of Alessandro Varotari, who imitated the style of Giorgione and of Pordenone so successfully that some of his pictures have been attributed to them. Most of his works