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 Samuel (1775-1811) were landscape painters.—Redgrave; Sandby, i. 314.

DANLOUX, HENRI PIERRE, born in Paris, Feb. 24, 1753, died there, Jan. 3, 1809. Portrait and history painter, pupil of J. B. Lépicié and of Vien; went early to Italy, and on return to Paris gained reputation by pictures in style of Greuze. In 1791 went to London, where he remained until 1802, and painted portraits of many eminent persons. His portrait of Charles X. is in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; that of Jacques Delille in the Versailles Museum. His Punishment of a Vestal (Salon, 1802) is referred to by his friend the poet Delille in his poem on Pity.—Ch. Blanc, École française; Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 335.

DANNAT, WILLIAM T., born in New York in 1853. Figure painter, pupil of the Royal Academy, Munich, and of Munkacsy in Paris. Has painted in Munich, Florence, Spain, and in Paris. Medal: Paris, 3d class, 1883. Works: Bavarian Peasant (1878); Aragonese Contrabandist (1883); Castanet Dance, A Quartette (1884).

DANSAERT, LÉON (MARIE CONSTANT), born in Brussels, Oct. 2, 1830. Genre painter, pupil in Paris of Édouard Frère; travelled in France, Germany, and Italy; lives at Écouen. Paints especially 18th century scenes in rococo costume. Works: Auction in 18th Century, Les Porcherons (1868); Wedding Feast, Vive le Roi! (1869); Before the Sale (1870); Café at End of 18th Century (1872); Before Meeting (1873); Affray in Tavern, Flower Market (1874); Reading the Contract (1877); Game at Dominos (1878); Crumbling World (1879); At the Barrier (1883).

DANSE DES AMOURS, Camille Corot, Charles A. Dana, New York; canvas. A valley, with lake in background; nymphs dancing in foreground; at right, a wooded hill, with a Greek temple and figures.

DANSE DU BATON (Staff Dance), Jean Léon Gérôme. A girl, loosely robed, holding a long staff in her hands, is dancing before a party of Arnauts, one of whom is playing a musical instrument. Painted in 1884.

DANTAN, JOSEPH ÉDOUARD, born in Paris, Aug. 26, 1848. History painter, pupil of Pils and of H. Lehmann; son of Jean Pierre D., the sculptor. Studio in Paris. Medals: 3d class, 1874; 2d class, 1880. Works: Destruction of Pompeii (1869); The Trinity (1872), chapel of the Hospital in Brezen-on-the-Marne; Hercules at the Feet of Omphale, Monk carving a Crucifix (1874), Nantes Museum; The Quoit-Thrower (1875); The Nymph Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (1876); Christ calling Peter and Andrew (1877); Christ on the Cross, Church of Dombrowa, Poland; Corner of a Studio (1880), Luxembourg Museum; The Model's Breakfast (1881); Corpus Christi Day (1882); Le Paradou, Interior at Villerville (1883); Moulding Shop, Turner's Shop (1884); Burial of a Child (1885).

DANTE, portrait, Giotto, Chapel of the Podestà or Bargello, Florence. The poet, then about twenty years of age, is represented with Corso Donati, Brunetto Latini, and a fourth personage, standing behind Charles of Valois, in the lower part of a fresco of Paradise painted on each side of a window. This fresco, mentioned by Vasari as visible in 1550, in which the painter had embodied the transient peace imposed on the Florentines in 1301, by Cardinal Acquasparta in the name of Pope Boniface VIII., was white-*washed when the palace was turned into a jail and the chapel into a storeroom. It thus remained degraded and forgotten until 1840, when, through the exertions of Messrs. Kirkup, Wilde, and Bezzi, it was brought to light in an injured condition. The eye of the