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 minister of Sardinia under Victor Emmanuel and distinguished also as a scholar. Works: Fight of Italian and French Knights at Barletta, Origin of the Sforza Family, Ulysses Received by Nausicaa, My Wood, Battle of Legnano.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 494.

BAADE, KNUD, born near Stavenger, Norway, March 28, 1808, died in Munich, Nov. 24, 1879. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy in 1827-30. After painting portraits in Christiania, went to Dresden, where he studied under Dahl in 1836-39; went again to Dresden in 1843 and settled in Munich in 1846. He was Swedish court painter and member of the Stockholm Academy. Works: Moonlight Night on Norwegian Coast, Christiania Gallery; do., Munich Gallery; Steamboat on the Cliffs.—Am. Art Rev. (1880), 179; Künst-Chronik, xv. 194; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 499; Regnet, i. 11.

BAADER, LOUIS MARIE, born at Lannion, June 20, 1828. History and genre painter; pupil of Yvon and of the École des Beaux Arts. After treating antique subjects, exhibited in Salons in 1866-68, his humorous picture of a man shaving a poodle dog (The Toilette) had great success in the Salon of 1873. Medal 1866; 3d class, 1874. Works: Destruction of Camulodunum; Hero and Leander; Ulysses and Nausicaa; Salmacis and Hermaphroditus; Posthumous Fame (1874); Savoyard's Lyre, Remorse, Tinker, Episode in Sparta (1877); Mistake, Faience Mender (1878).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 500; Müller, 20; Kunst-Chronik, viii. 86.

BAAGE, CARL EMIL, born in Copenhagen, Aug. 22, 1829. Marine painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy; visited Iceland and Norway and made several cruises on royal men-of-war. Works: Vessels in the Sund (1855); Frigate Facing Storm in the Atlantic (1872).—Sigurd Müller, 17; Weilbach, 38.

BABUREN, THEODOR VAN, born probably at Utrecht in 1570 (?), died there in 1624 (?). Dutch school; history and genre painter, closely resembling G. Honthorst in choice of subjects and realistic treatment. Works: Entombment (1617), S. Pietro in Montorio, Rome; Portrait of Young Singer (1623), Castle Langenstein near Halberstadt; Clarinet Player, Conversation, Prometheus Bound (1623); Adam and Eve; Bacchanal.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 503.

BABYLONIAN MARRIAGE MARKET, Edwin Long, Holloway Institute, Egham, near London. The sale of a tall, fair damsel, standing on a platform before a crowd of Babylonians, whom her uncommon charms have evidently stirred to the heart. At the salesman's bidding she raises her white veil, while a negress shifts the long light robe from her torso, of which we see only the back; in front, a row of dusky beauties. Royal Academy, 1875; C. Hermon sale (1882), £6,615.—Art Journal (1875), 250; Athen., May, 1875, 490.

BACCHANAL, Giovanni Bellini and Titian, Alnwick Castle, England; canvas, 6 ft. square; signed, dated 1514. The gods, feasting and drinking in a woody glade; background, a rocky hill, with a castle—view of Cadore, seen from the point of Previs. Begun in 1514 for Duke Alfonso of Ferrara by Bellini, who sketched and dated it, but was prevented from finishing on account of his great age, says Vasari; finished by Titian. Was in the Ludovisi and Aldobrandini collections, Rome, before going to England. Much retouched.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 191; Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 433; Campori, Tiziano e gli Estense, Nuova Antologia, Nov. 1874; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 412, 418.

By Dosso Dossi, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; canvas, 4 ft. 9 in. square. A motley group of ladies and gentlemen, some of them half nude, pressing round a table on which lie masks, musical instruments, etc.—Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 488.

By Titian, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 5 ft. 9 in. × 6 ft. 4 in.; signed. Bacchantes