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 of willows on the water's brink strikes in dark shade against the light of a gray October sky; in foreground, thickly-set water-reeds. Mr. Millais's first exhibited landscape. Royal Academy, 1871. Etched by Brunet Debaines.—Art Journal (1871), 149; Builder (1871), 380.

CHIMENTI, JACOPO. See Empoli.

CHINTREUIL, ANTOINE, born at Pont-de-Vaux, Ain, May 5, 1814, died at Septeuil, Seine-et-Oise, Aug. 10, 1873. Landscape painter, pupil of Corot; industrious and original, especially skilful in treatment of foreground and of sunlight. His pictures have increased in value since his death. Medal, 1867; L. of Honour, 1870. Works: Valley of Igny (1852); The Moors, Autumn Evening (1853); The Country in the Morning (1855); After the Rain, Reims Museum; Evening, Angers Museum; Paths bordered with Apple-Trees, Coming out of the Woods (1857), Bourg Museum; The Deer Pond, Mende Museum; Rain (1859); The Aube after a Stormy Night, Potato Field, Broom-Plant in Flower (1861); Fields in the Early Dawn, Field of Sainfoin, November (1863, rejected by the Salon, but admired by the critics); Sunset with Ruins, Macon Museum; Meadow (1864); Scotch Mist, St. Malo Museum; Vapors of Evening (1865); Twilight, Pont-de-Vaux Museum; Country during a Hailstorm (1866), Rodez Museum; Meadows with Oats, Country in Autumn (1867); Aurora, Flood (1868); Space, Woods in Sunlight (1869); The Moon, A Beam of Sunlight on a field of Sainfoin (1870); Apple-Trees and Broom-Plants in Blossom, Close of Day (1872); Rain and Sunlight, Low Tide, The White Road (1873); Thicket with Deer (1873), Luxembourg Museum.—Larousse; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 508.

CHIODAROLO, GIOVANNI MARIA, flourished about 1520. Bolognese school; pupil of Francesco Francia and rival of Aspertini, Girolamo da Cotignola, and Innocenzo da Imola. An Adoration of the Child by him is in the Bologna Gallery.—Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise; Burckhardt, 585, 586.

CHODOVIECKI, DANIEL NICOLAUS, born in Dantzic, Oct. 16, 1726, died in Berlin, Feb. 7, 1801. German school; portrait painter, taught drawing by his father, an amateur; later studied in Berlin under Haid, a pupil of Rugendas, until 1745, when he devoted himself to portrait painting in little. Elected rector of the Academy in 1764, vice-director in 1788, and director in 1797. Works: Calas taking Farewell of his Family (1766); Blind Man's Buff, Cock-Throwing (1768), Berlin Museum; Resting Place in the Thier-*garten, Leipsic Museum.—Allgem. d. Biog., iv. 132; Brockhaus, iv., 330; Dohme, 1ii.; Woltmann, Aus vier Jahr hunderten, 147; Pecht, iii. 51; Riegel, 49.

CHOULANT, THEODOR, born in Dresden, July 18, 1827. Architecture painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Semper; visited Italy and Sicily in 1850-51, lived in Rome in 1858-61 and studied again in Venice and Florence in 1864 and 1873-74. Saxon court-painter in 1868. Works: Castle S. Angelo, Rome, Dresden Museum; The Eight Ancestral Castles of the House of Saxony (fresco), Royal Palace, ib.; Vestibule, Court-theatre, ib.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 202.

CHRIST AND THE ADULTERESS. See Woman taken in Adultery.

CHRIST WITH ANGELS (Crucifix aux Anges), Charles Lebrun, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 5 ft. 9 in. × 4 ft. 2 in. Angels in the air and others kneeling on the ground are in adoration before Christ expiring on the cross. At foot of cross, the crown of France on a blue velvet cushion. Painted in 1686 to illustrate a dream of the queen-mother, Anne of Austria. Engraved by G. Edelinck, P. Drevet.—Villot, Cat. Louvre.