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 St. Christina looking up to heaven, surrounded by angels bearing the instruments of her martyrdom. A very lovely example of the Venetian religious school, but marked by want of originality. Painted in 1520 for the church where it still hangs.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 312; C. & C., N. Italy, i. 251; Burckhardt, 601.

CHRISTOPHSEN, PETER. See Cristus, Petrus.

CHRISTUS CONSOLATOR, Ary Scheffer, Fodor Collection, Amsterdam; canvas, H. 6 ft. × 8 ft. Illustration of Luke iv. 18. Christ seated upon clouds, with his arms extended, offers consolation to the poor, the blind, the broken-hearted, and those in captivity. Salon, 1837; purchased by Duc d'Orleans; his sale (1853), 52,500 fr. to M. Fodor. Engraved by Henriquel Dupont.—Ch. Blanc, École française; Gaz. des B. Arts (1874), x. 565; Larousse, iv. 214.

CHRISTUS REMUNERATOR, Ary Scheffer. Christ, standing, turned a little toward the right, his feet bare, extends his arms toward the good and the repentant sinners. Painted in 1847. Engraved by A. Blanchard.—Larousse, iv. 214.

CHRYSEIS, RETURN OF, Claude Lorrain, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 3 ft. 11 in. × 5 ft. Chryseis, or more properly Astynome, daughter of Chryses, priest of Apollo, had been taken prisoner by Achilles and adjudged to Agamemnon, who was obliged by the anger of Apollo to restore her to her father. (Homer, Il., i. 10, 378). The ship in which Ulysses has brought her lies in the port; in foreground, sailors land goods, and at left, animals for sacrifice; in second plane, left, an Ionic temple, on the peristyle of which Chryses, surrounded by attendants, is receiving his daughter. Liber Veritatis, No. 80. Painted for Prince de Liancourt, from whom acquired by Louis XIV. Engraved by D. Barrière (1654).—Pattison, Claude Lorrain, 59, 241; Villot, Cat. Louvre.

CHRYSOSTOM, ST. JOHN, MAJESTY OF, Sebastian del Piombo, S. Giovanni Crisostomo, Venice; canvas, figures life-size. The Saint, attended by one of the fathers, is seated in front of a palace, correcting a book of homilies on his knee; on one side SS. Mary Magdalen, Catherine and Agnes; on the other, SS. John Baptist and Liberale; background, rich landscape. Painted in Venice in 1513; ascribed to Gio. Bellini by Burckhardt.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 312; Rosini, v. 224; Vasari, ed. Mil., v. 566; Burckhardt, 597; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 512.

CHURCH, FREDERIC EDWIN, born at Hartford, Conn., May 4, 1826. Landscape painter; pupil of Thomas Cole at Catskill, N. Y., where his first pictures were painted. Elected N.A. in 1849. Made sketching tours in South America in 1853 and 1857; later, on coast of Labrador and in Jamaica, and in 1868 visited Europe and the Holy Land. Medal, 2d class, Paris, 1867. Studios in New York and in Hudson. Visited Mexico in 1883. Works: Andes of Ecuador (1855), William H. Osborn, New York; The Great Fall—Niagara (1857), Corcoran Gallery, Washington; Heart of the Andes (1859), David Dows, New York; Icebergs (1861), Sir Edward Watkins, London; Cotopaxi (1862), Lenox Library, New York; Chimborazo (1864), William H. Osborn, ib.; St. Thomas in the Vale—Jamaica (1866), Mrs. Samuel Colt, Hartford, Conn.; Niagara (1866), Mrs. A. T. Stewart, New York; Damascus (1869), William Walter Phelps, ib.; Rainy Season in the Tropics (1870), Mrs. M. O. Roberts, ib.; Jerusalem (1870), T. M. Allyn, Hartford; The Parthenon (1871), M. K. Jesup, New York; El Khasna Petra (1872), Mrs. F. E. Church, ib.; Tropical moonlight (1874), William H. Osborn, ib.; Ægean Sea (1875), William H. Osborn, ib.; Valley of Santa Ysabel (1875), John Buckingham, Chicago;