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 Robes, Madam's Chocolate, J. Hoey, New York.

BÉRAUD, JEAN, born in St. Petersburg, of French parents; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter; pupil of Bonnat. Medals: 3d class, 1882; 2d class, 1883. Works: Leda (1877); Soirée (1878); Condolences (1879); Public Ball (1880); Montmartre (1881); The Intermediary, The Vertigo (1882);	The Brewery, The Prayer (1883); Les fous (1884); portrait of Coquelin (1885).

BERCHEM (Berghem), CLAAS (Nicolaas) PIETERSZ, born in Haarlem, baptized Oct. 16, 1620, died in Amsterdam, Feb. 18, 1683. Dutch school; landscape, animal, history, and portrait painter; son and pupil of Pieter Claasz; pupil of J. van Goyen, N. Moyaert, P. de Grebber, Jan Wils, whose daughter he married, and J. B. Weenix. In June, 1642, he entered the guild in Haarlem, where he worked until 1670, having probably visited Italy in 1648-55, and finally settled in Amsterdam. His early pictures resemble the works of Weenix, but his later ones, representing landscapes enriched with architectural ruins and charming groups of figures and cattle, are original and interesting. His historical and mythological pictures are not so successful. He was a good etcher. Works: Landscape with Ruin, and three others, National Gallery, London; Winter Landscape, and six others, Amsterdam Museum; Pastoral (1648), Wild-Boar Hunt, Italian Ford, Convoy Attacked, Hague Museum; Rocky Landscape, and ten others, Louvre; several in Munich Gallery; do, Dresden Gallery; Shepherds and Cattle, Woman on Donkey, Vienna Museum; Winter Landscape with figures, three others, Berlin Museum; Halt of Hunters, Rape of Europa (1656), thirteen others, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Allgem. d. Biogr., ii. 350; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Brockhaus, ii. 820; Dohme, 1. ii.; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 446; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 573; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 375; Van der Willigen, 76.

BERCHÈRE, NARCISSE, born at Étampes (Seine et Oise), in 1822. Landscape painter; pupil of Renoux and of Rémond. Paints Oriental scenes with great truth to nature; good in composition, drawing, and colour. Medals: 3d class, 1859, 1861, 1864, 1878; L. of Honour, 1870. Works: a Caravan caught in a Simoom, Colossus of Memnon (1859); Caravan crossing the Desert, Temple of Hermontis (1861); Twilight in Lower Nubia (1864), Luxembourg Museum; Mouth of the Nile at Lesbeh (1870); three Views on the Nile (1875); Mahalet-el-Kebir (1876); The Nile between Cairo and Isle of Rodah, View at Thebes (1878).—Larousse; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 582.

BERCK-HEYDE (Berk Heyde), GERRIT, born at Haarlem, baptized June 6, 1638, died there, June 10, 1698. Dutch school; landscape and architecture painter; pupil probably of Frans Hals, and of his elder brother, Job B., whom he accompanied to Cologne and Heidelberg, where they were employed for some time at the court of the Elector Palatine. Master of Haarlem guild in 1660. Works: View of Amsterdam (1668), Antwerp Museum; Old City Hall (1677), View of the Spaarne at Haarlem, three Views of Old City Hall (one dated 1604), Landscape with Castle Egmond, Amsterdam Museum; View of Cologne, Rotterdam Museum; two Views in Amsterdam, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Flock of Sheep driven through Gate, Cassel Gallery; View of the Dam (1689), Kunsthalle, Carlsruhe;