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 series of five pictures, representing a nation's rise, progress, decline, fall, and desolation. Painted in 1832-4 for Luman Reed, New York. 1. (H. 3 ft. 3 in. × 5 ft. 1 in.) Savage State or Commencement of Empire; 2. (H. 3 ft. 3 in. × 5 ft. 2 in.) Arcadian or Pastoral State; 3. (H. 4 ft. 2 in. × 6 ft. 3 in.) Consummation of Empire; 4. (H. 3 ft. 2 in. × 5 ft. 2 in.) Destruction; 5. (H. 3 ft. 3 in. × 5 ft. 1 in.) Desolation. Of this picture Frederic E. Church writes: "If I were permitted to select three from among all the landscapes I have ever seen, I should certainly choose for one of them 'Desolation,' the last of the five pictures of the 'Course of Empire.'"

COURT-JESTERS IN ANTECHAMBER, Eduardo Zamacoïs, Mrs. A. T. Stewart, New York; canvas. A group of hunchbacked jesters amusing themselves in the antechamber of a prince. The painter's sarcastic humour finds vent in making these unfortunates portraits of himself and of his artist friends. The one watching the stand of paroquets is Jules Worms, and the one throwing dice is Berne-Bellecour; he himself is represented with ass's ears, and his brother is the page.—Art Treas. of Amer., i. 37.

COURT, JOSEPH DÉSIRÉ, born at Rouen, Sept. 11, 1798, died there, Jan. 23, 1865. Genre painter, pupil of Gros; won the grand prix de Rome in 1821. Medals: 1st class, 1831; 2d class, 1855; L. of Honour, 1838. Works: Samson delivered to the Philistines (1821); Deluge, Faun in a Bath dragging in a Girl, Death of Cæsar (1827), Louvre; St. Peter sent by the Romans to Jerusalem (1836); Duc d' Orléans as Lieut. General (1836), Versailles; Return of St. Louis (1841); King giving Colours to the National Guard, Aug. 29, 1830, Versailles; Flight of Governor of Constantine (1839); Duc d' Orléans laying the first Stone of the Agen Canal (1844). Among his many portraits are those of Mme. Adelaïde and the Prince de Joinville, the King and Queen of Denmark, Duc Decazes, Monsignor Sibour, and Pope Pius IX. (1855).—Larousse.

COURTAT, LOUIS, born in Paris; contemporary. History painter, pupil of Cabanel. Medals: 3d class, 1873 and 1874; 1st class, 1875. Works: Siesta (1873); St. Sebastian (1874); Leda (1875), Luxembourg Museum; Hagar and Ishmael (1877); Spring-Time (1878); Eve and her Children (1879); Nymph (1880); Little Orange Girl (1881); Odalisque (1882); Venus Awakened (1884); Bathers (1885).

COURTENS, FRANZ, born at Termonde, Belgium; contemporary. Landscape and genre painter. Medal: 3d class, 1884. Works: Morning in the Campine (1881); Departure for Fishing, Dutch Village (1882); In the Cabbage Fields, Salt Meadows (1883).

COURTOIS, GUSTAVE, born at Pusey (Haute-Saône) in 1852. History and portrait painter, pupil of Gérôme. Medals: 3d class, 1878; 2d class, 1880; Munich, 1883. Works: Orpheus, Death of Archimedes (1876); Narcissus (1877), Luxembourg Museum; Lais in Hell (1878); Dante and Virgil in Hell (1880); Portraits (1881); Bayadere (1882); Fantasy (1883); Burial of Atala (1884).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xxi. 157.

COURTOIS, JACQUES, named Le Bourguignon (Il Borgognone); in Italy called also Jacopo Cortese; born at St. Hippolyte, Franche-Comté, in 1621, died in Rome, Nov. 14, 1676. French school; battle painter, pupil of his father, Jean, and of Cerquozzi. Entered the Spanish military service, then went to Italy to resume his artistic studies at Rome. Inspired by Raphael's fresco of the victory of Constantine