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 Charity, Portrait of Louis XIII., Allegory of Riches, Faith, Eloquence, Susanna and the Elders, Louvre; Dead Christ, Presentation of the Virgin, Dijon Museum; St. Stephen in Ecstasy, Douai Museum; Temptation of St. Anthony, Repose in Egypt, Grenoble Museum; Entombment, Havre Museum; Christ on the Cross, Lyons Museum; Madonna, Marseilles Museum; Wisdom, Montpellier Museum; Nymph and Cupid, Cupids playing with the Arms of Æneas, Nancy Museum; Apotheosis of St. Eustache (ceiling), Peace, Ave Maria, Nantes Museum; St. Paul Baptizing, Nîmes Museum; Nymph with Grapes watched by Youth, Orléans Museum; Madonna with St. John, Rennes Museum; Apotheosis of St. Louis, Rouen Museum; Christ surrounded by Angels, Strasburg Museum; Portrait of a Lady as Cleopatra, Troyes Museum; Finding of the Cross, The Brazen Serpent, Toulouse Museum; St. Stephen in Prayer, Valenciennes Museum; St. Charles Borromeo interceding for the Plague-stricken at Milan, Brussels Museum; Allegory on Glory of France, Madonna kneeling by a Column, Carlsruhe Gallery; Apotheosis of St. Louis, Dresden Museum; Holy Family, Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, Hermannstadt Museum; Two Portraits of Princesses, Madrid Museum; Madonna in a Landscape, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Madonna (2), Venus and Adonis, Death of Lucretia, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Madonna, Schwerin Gallery; Annunciation, Uffizi, Florence; Allegory on Painting, Turin Gallery.—Bellier, ii. 702; Ch. Blanc, École française.

VOYAGE OF LIFE, Thomas Cole, Henry B. Plant, New York; allegorical series of four pictures. 1. The child, with its guardian angel, in a boat heaped with flowers, is floating down the stream; 2. The youth, with hope in his aspect, is taking command of the helm; 3. The mature man, his boat hurried onward by the rapids of the river; 4. The aged navigator who is again joined by his guardian angel as he is about entering the ocean of eternity. Painted in 1841 for Samuel Ward; purchased after his death by the American Art Union, and drawn as a prize in 1848 by J. F. Bredt, Binghamton, of whom bought by Rev. Gorham D. Abbott; passed next to John Taylor Johnston and sold at his sale (1876) for $3,100. Engraved by James Smillie. Replica, painted in 1843, owned in the West.

VRANCX, SEBASTIAAN, born in Antwerp, baptized Jan. 22, 1573, died there, May 19, 1647. Flemish school; history, hunt, and battle painter, pupil of Adam van Noort, then went to Italy, and probably returned about 1600, when he became master of the guild at Antwerp; was dean in 1612. He followed in the path of Jan Brueghel and Hendrik van Balen, enlivening his pictures with a multitude of well-*grouped figures, brilliant in colouring, but somewhat stiff in drawing. Works: Camp of Ambrosius Spinola's Army near Ostend, Charge of Cavalry, Surprisal of a Convoy, Woodland with Vehicles and Travellers (landscape in last two by Jan Brueghel), Madrid Museum; Siege of Wachtendonk by the Spaniards, Amsterdam Museum; Pillage, Promenade (2), Madonna, Rotterdam Museum; Attack of Robbers, Cavalry Skirmish, Brunswick Museum; Skirmish about Travelling Coach (? attributed to Peeter Snayers), Darmstadt Museum; Military Camp on Seashore, Cavalry Skirmish, three others (attributed), Gotha Museum; Pilgrims encamped near a Town (1622), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Pharaoh perishing in the Red Sea, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Surprisal of Travellers, Interior of Jesuit Church at Antwerp, Vienna Museum.—Kramm, II. 509; vi. 1801; Michiels, vii. 268; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 48; Rooses (Reber), 153; Van den Branden, 470.

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