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 (1843), Opening at the Louvre of the Legislative Session in 1823 (1843), Versailles Museum; Henri d'Albret received into the Chapter at Auch, Amiens Museum; Landscape with Factories, Interior of Monastery near Arles, Interior of a Vault, Landscape, do. with Figures, Bordeaux Museum; Interior of Basle Cathedral, Colmar Museum; Vault Interior, Lisieux Museum; Rocks, Nantes Museum; Rhine View (1831), Orléans Museum; The Antiquary, Leipsic Museum.—Bellier, ii. 361.

Rent-Day, Sir David Wilkie, John Chapman (?).

RENT-DAY, Sir David Wilkie, John Chapman (?); canvas. Tenants paying their rent to the landlord, who is seated behind a table at left; at right, a table with several persons eating; 18 figures. Painted in 1808; sold for £150 to Earl of Mulgrave, after whose death it was offered for sale, but bought in for 750 guineas; afterward sold to J. Chapman for about £2,000. Engraved by A. Raimbach.—Heaton, Works of Sir D. W.; Mollett, 30.

RENTZELL, AUGUST VON, born at Marienwerder, West Prussia, in 1810. Genre painter, pupil in Berlin of Karl Begas; went for some time to Düsseldorf and settled in Berlin; represents comical situations and little fatalities of human life. Works: Cab in Rainstorm claimed by Several Persons; Late Packing (1842); Picture Dealer in Tyrolese Village; In the Stable; First Ride; Sunday Morning; Alpine Hunter; Travellers on Austrian Frontier; Afternoon on Lake Vierwaldstädt; Mid-day Rest in the Open, Sleeping Grandmother (1847), Ravené Gallery, Berlin.—Rosenberg, Berl. Malerschule, 70.

REPOSE IN EGYPT, Paul Delaroche, Sir Richard Wallace, Bart., London. The Virgin seated with Infant Jesus asleep on her knees; in background, St. Joseph. Called sometimes Vierge au lézard. Painted for Lord Hertford. Engraved by Martinet.—Larousse, xiii. 995.

By Anton van Dyck, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; canvas, H. 7 ft. × 9 ft. 1 in. Same as the Palazzo Pitti picture, except that the angels are replaced by some partridges, whence sometimes called Madonna with the Partridges. In Collection of Charles I., valued at £40; Collection of M. van Loo, Amsterdam (1713), 12,050 florins; Collection of M. Valkenburg, Rotterdam (1731), 12,150 florins; bought by Earl of Orford for £800 for Houghton Collection, and sold, with other pictures, to Empress Catherine in 1795 for £36,000. Engraved by S. G. and J. G. Facius; lithographed by Huot.—Guiffrey, 245; Smith, iii. 81.

By Anton van Dyck, Munich Gallery; canvas, H. 4 ft. 1 in. × 3 ft. 6 in. The Virgin seated under a tree, with Jesus sleeping on her breast; at left, St. Joseph. Engraved by Bolswert; Ragot; C. Waumans; Edelinck; J. Burger.—Smith, iii. 17; Klas. der Malerei, Pl. 13; Guiffrey, 244.

By Anton van Dyck, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; canvas, H. 4 ft. 3 in. × 5 ft. 3 in. The Virgin seated on a bank under trees, holding Jesus erect in her lap, and St. Joseph sitting behind; their attention is directed