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 unpleasant in tone. Works: Christ on the Cross, The Magdalen, St. Christopher carrying Infant Christ (attributed to Patenier), National Gallery, London; Temptation of St. Anthony, Brussels Museum; Repose in Egypt, Antwerp Museum; Holy Family, Basle Museum; St. Hubert Hunting, Maurice Chapel, Nuremberg; Adoration of the Magi (signed: Henricus Blessius F.), Angelic Salutation, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Male portrait with landscape, Berlin Museum; Pedler robbed by Monkeys, Dresden Gallery; Flight into Egypt (?), St. John Preaching, Good Samaritan, Walk to Emmaus, Repose in Egypt (called style of Patenier), Museum, Vienna; Christ bearing the Cross, St. John preaching, Academy, ib.; St. Jerome in the Desert (attributed to Patenier), Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Dante's Inferno, Doge's Palace, Venice; Temptation of St. Anthony, Museo Civico, ib.; Tower of Babel, Academy, ib.; Madonna, Working a Mine, Uffizi, Florence; Christ bearing the Cross, Palazzo Doria, Rome; Landscapes (5), Naples Museum; Adoration of the Magi (?), Milan Academy; do. and Landscape (attributed to Patenier), Madrid Museum.—Biogr. nat. de Belgique, ii. 471; Michiels, iv. 368, 391; ix. 115; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 44; Rooses (Reber), 114; W. & W., ii. 522; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xv. 128.

BLESSING THE HARVEST, (Bénédiction des blés), Jules Breton, Luxembourg Museum; canvas, H. 4 ft. 3 in. × 10 ft. 5 in. Ceremony of blessing the harvest in Artois. A procession, headed by young girls in white, followed by the priest under a canopy attended by choir boys, the village officials, and peasants in their old-fashioned holiday clothes, pass through the fields; in fore-*ground, women and children kneeling. Salon, 1857.—Meyer, Gesch., 642.

BLIND FIDDLER, Sir David Wilkie, National Gallery, London; wood, H. 1 ft. 11 in. × 2 ft. 7 in. An itinerant musician, seated at left, entertaining a cottager and his family by playing on his fiddle. Twelve figures; accessories very elaborate. Painted in 1807 for Sir George Beaumont, who presented it in 1826. Engraved by J. Burnet, T. Nicholson.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Heaton, Works of Sir D. W.; Mollett, 26; Waagen, Art Treasures, i. 376.

BLIND-MAN'S-BUFF, Sir David Wilkie, Buckingham Palace; canvas. Cottagers playing blind-man's-buff in a kitchen. Painted in 1812 for George IV. when Prince Regent, who paid for it 300 guineas. Loan Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1883. Original sketch (1811) in National Gallery. Engraved by A. Raimbach, W. Greatbach.—Heaton, Works of Sir D. W.; Mollett, 42, 46; Waagen, Art Treasures, ii. 25; Art Journal (1860), 108.

BLOCH, ALEXANDRE, born in Paris; contemporary. Landscape and genre painter; pupil of Gérôme and Bastien-Lepage. Medal, 3d class, 1885. Works: At the Antiquary's (1880); Banks of Seine at Vaux (1881), M. Delorière; Crab Fisherman, Mill of Jarcy (1882); Willows of Bonneuil, Chemin du Chapitre at Crétail (1883); Place de la Chapelle—Paris, Brook of Moc-Souris—Morbihan (1884); Defence of Rochefort-en-Terre—April 29, 1793 (1885).

BLOCH, KARL HEINRICH, born in Copenhagen, May 23, 1834. Genre and history painter; pupil of Copenhagen Academy; studied from nature among peasantry of Zealand and on coast of Jutland, and soon acquired reputation for humourous pictures. Studio in Rome from 1859 to 1865. Since then has painted mostly historical subjects. He is a member of and professor at the Copenhagen Academy. Medals in 1852, 1853, 1864; Order of Danebrog, 1867. Works: Peasant's Cottage (1854); Fisherman's Family on Shore (1858); Repast (1859); Fisherman from Sorrento (1861), Copenhagen Gallery;