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 × 5 ft. 6 in. The two poets in a landscape, at the entrance to Hades, and the three symbolic beasts: the panther, signifying Florence and worldly pleasure; the lion, France and ambition; the female wolf, Rome and avarice. Presented by Q. A. Shaw, 1875.

By Eugène Delacroix, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 5 ft. 11 in. × 7 ft. 10 in.; signed, dated 1822. Scene from Dante's Inferno (vii.). Dante and Virgil, conducted by Phlegeas, cross the lake which surrounds the infernal city of Dis. Among the spirits which clutch at the boat as it passes, Dante recognizes some Florentines. Salon, 1822. Formerly in Luxembourg.

DANTE, VISION OF, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Liverpool Gallery; canvas. Scene from Vita Nuova: Dante's dream on the day of Beatrice's death, June 9, 1290. Love (the pilgrim of Love of the Vita Nuova) leads by the hand Dante, who walks conscious, but absorbed as in sleep, into a chamber of dreams, strewn with poppies, where Beatrice lies on a couch as if just fallen back in death; Love bends over her with a kiss, while two dream-ladies hold suspended for an instant the pall full of May blooms. Original sketch exhibited at Liverpool Academy, 1858; painted in 1870; acquired by Liverpool Gallery in 1881.—Athenæum, Aug., 1881, 250; Jan., 1883, 94; Blackwood, March, 1883, 399.

DANTE, GIROLAMO, called Girolamo di Tiziano, flourished in Venice in 1547-80. Venetian school; history painter, pupil of Titian, and his assistant in some of his minor works. The altarpiece, SS. Cosmo and Damian, in S. Giovanni Nuovo, is attributed to him.—Vasari, ed. Le Mon., xiii. 194.

DAPHNE. See Apollo and Daphne.

DAPHNEPHORIA, Sir Frederick Leighton, J. Stewart Hodgson; canvas, H. 7 ft. 8 in. × 17 ft. Triumphal procession held every ninth year at Thebes, in honour of Apollo, to commemorate a victory of the Thebans over the Æolians of Arne. Name derived from laurel branches carried by those who took part. The procession, headed by a priest called the Daphnephoros, moves through a wood; city of Thebes in distance, in a valley at left. A decorative picture, painted for the country house of the present owner. Royal Academy, 1876. Facsimile of original sketch in Art Journal (1881), 152.—Art Journal (1881), 136.

DAPHNIS AND CHLOE, Paris Bordone, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 4 ft. 5 in. × 3 ft. 11 in. The two seated on a bank among trees; Cupid crowns Chloe with a wreath of myrtle.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Richter, 87.

By François Gérard, Louvre; canvas, H. 6 ft. 6 in. × 7 ft. 6 in. At left, on the bank of a stream which pours as a cascade out of a grotto, Daphnis is seated upon the trunk of a tree, plaiting a crown of flowers; Chloe sleeps at his feet, her head resting against his knees. Salon, 1824. Acquired in 1825 for 25,000 fr. Engraved by Richomme.

DAPPER. See Tamm.

DARDOIZE, ÉMILE, born in Paris; contemporary. Landscape painter. Medal: 3d class, 1882. Works: At Maintenon, Pond of Cernay, Valley of Cernay (1875); Moonrise, Sunset (1876); Washer-women at Pond of Cernay, Greenfinch Nest (1877); From Royat to Fontanas, Road in Fontainebleau Forest (1878); At Maintenon, Autumn (1879); Sunset, Forest-brook (1880); Evening, Morning on the Creuse (1881); Twilight, A Corner of Cernay (1882); Notch near Falaise, Val du Sud (1883); The Source, To the Moon (1884); Brittany Road at Pont d'Ouilly, Seine at Coudray (1885).

DARGELAS, HENRI, born at Bordeaux, October 11, 1828. Genre painter, pupil of Picot; lives at Écouen (Seine-et-Oise). Medal in 1864. Works: Challenge, T. A. Havemeyer, New York; Apple-Stealers, A. E. Borie Collection, Philadelphia; Kept In, E. B. Warren, Philadelphia; In the Woods, J. Hoey, New York; Fagot Gatherers, G. Hoadly, Cincinnati; Gardener's Child; In