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 CASTOR AND POLLUX, Rubens, Munich Gallery; canvas, H. 7 ft. 4 in. × 6 ft. 10 in. Castor and Pollux carrying off Hilæira and Phœbe, daughters of Leucippus. One of them, mounted on a noble horse, the reins of which are held by Cupid, is lifting up one of the women, aided by his brother, who is holding the other one upon his knee. Engraved by Val. Green.—Smith, ii. 63.

Castor and Pollux, Rubens, Munich Gallery.

CASUAL WARD, Luke Fildes, Holloway Institute, Egham, near London. A group of wretched and deformed creatures waiting for admission to a resting place for the night. Wonderfully realistic. Royal Academy, 1874; Philadelphia Exposition, 1876; Paris Exposition, 1878; sold to Thos. Taylor, of Wigan; Taylor sale (1883), £2,205.—Art Journal (1874), 201; Portfolio, May, 1878.

CATEL, FRANZ LUDWIG, born in Berlin, Feb. 22, 1778, died in Rome, Dec. 19, 1856. German school; landscape painter. Beginning as wood-carver and illustrator of books, he practised water-colour, and in 1806 painted the assassination of Nicholas von Bernau, for which he was elected member of the Berlin Academy. Went to Paris in 1807, where he commenced oil painting, to Switzerland in 1811, where he studied Alpine scenery, and to Rome in 1812, where his talent developed through intercourse with Koch, Overbeck, Schadow, and Cornelius. With the exception of occasional home visits, he remained in Italy, and from 1830 lived at his country seat near Macerata. His landscapes with architectural accessories are broadly treated, and effective in chiaroscuro. Works: Colonnade of St. Peter's by Moonlight; Storm on Etna; Monastery near Salerno; Interior of Pantheon; The Via Appia; View from Cloister at Amalfi; Gondolas on the Lagoon; View of Rome; Crater of Vesuvius; Ruins of Pæstum; Villa of Mæcenas at Tivoli. Other pictures in Berlin, Munich, and Copenhagen Galleries.—Allgem. d. Biogr., iv. 70; Riegel, 533.

CATENA, VINCENZO, born at Treviso about 1465, died in Venice, 1531. Venetian school; real name, Vincenzo di Biagio; known in 1495, when a journeyman in the Sala del Gran Consiglio, Venice, as Vincenzo da Treviso. A pupil of the Bellini, he copied Giovanni Bellini, without approaching him in drawing, boldness of treatment, or richness of colouring; but he was a painter of great industry and considerable reputation, and made friends among the wealthy. Among his earlier pictures are a Presentation of Christ to Simeon, Communal Gallery, Padua; a Madonna and Saints, Liverpool Institution; and a Trinity, S. Simeone, Venice. His skill increased with the opening of the 16th century, as is shown in his Madonna and Doge Loredano, Palazzo Ducale, Venice. His portrait of Loredano, Lochis-Carrara Gallery, Bergamo, is assigned to Gentile Bellini, and the copy at Dresden to Giov. Bellini. In 1520 Catena finished the Glorification of St. Christina, in S. M. Mater Domini, Venice. Other pictures by him are: Madonna and Saints, Dresden Gallery; Circumcision, Leuchten