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 (1879); Return of Herd (1880), Luxembourg Museum; Stream (1880); Relays of Dogs (1881); Field of the Fair, Breton Moor (1882); New Grass, In the Meadows (1883), Luxembourg Museum; Summer Morning, Autumn Day (1884); Sale of Colts (1885); The Brook, Departure of Colts (1886).—Bellier, ii. 705; Larousse.

VULCAN, FORGE OF, Tintoretto, Palazzo Ducale, Venice; canvas. "A meagre and vulgar study of common models."—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 297; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 216.

Forge of Vulcan, Velasquez, Madrid Museum.

By Velasquez, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 7 ft. 5 in. × 9 ft. 6 in. Apollo, partly draped, with a wreath on his head, from which light scintillates, enters the smithy of Vulcan to tell him of the infidelity of Venus; Vulcan and four half-nude cyclops, who are aiding him, cease their work to listen. Painted in Italy in 1629-31, after same models as Coat of Joseph. Engraved by Glairon; Enriquez. Etched by Alabern y Fatjo.—Curtis, 21; Madrazo, 598.

VULCAN AND VENUS. See Venus and Vulcan.

WAAGEN, ADALBERT, born in Munich, March 30, 1834. Landscape painter, son of Karl Waagen (1800-73), and brother of the art historian Georg Friedrich Waagen; pupil of Albert Zimmermann, whom he followed to Milan; returned to Munich in 1859, and settled at Berchtesgaden in 1869. The finest of his landscapes are in the possession of the Russian Prince Apraxin; many, also, are in England and America. Other works: The Obersee; Val Sassina; The High Göll; View of the Brenner Railway near Gossensass; Ruin of Kühbach near Bozen; Villa Carlotta on Lake Como, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.—Müller, 541.

WACH, KARL WILHELM, born in Berlin, Sept. 11, 1787, died there, Nov. 25, 1845. History and portrait painter, pupil of Karl Kretzschmar and of Berlin Academy; took part as an officer in the campaigns of 1813-15, then studied in Paris under David and Gros, and in 1817 went to Rome, where he aided in the revival of modern German art; returned to Berlin in 1819, became member of and professor at the Academy, and established a school in Berlin, from which issued more than seventy scholars. Court painter in 1827; senator of the Academy in 1829; vice-director in 1840. Order of Red Eagle. Works: Christ with SS. John and Matthew (1807); Portrait of Queen Louise (1811); Christ Crucified (1815), Garnisonskirche, Berlin; St. John Baptist (1816), Schloss Bellevue, ib.; Male Head, Madonna Enthroned (1826), Psyche surprised by Cupid, National Gallery, ib.; Portrait of Countess Raczynski (1827). Head of the Virgin, Christ and Disciples (1828), Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Three Divine Virtues (1828-30), Werder