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 and best preserved works. Painted for Pisani family, of whom the principal figures are portraits, and preserved in Palazzo Pisani, Venice, until purchased for National Gallery in 1857. Richter thinks the kneeling girls are the artist's daughters, and the man with the long gray beard his brother Benedetto.—Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 554; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 60; Richter, Ital. Art in National Gallery, 74.

DARIUS, TENT OF, Charles Lebrun, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 9 ft. 9 in. × 14 ft. 10 in. Alexander, accompanied by Hephæstion, visits in their tent the family of Darius, captured at the battle of Issus. Sisygambia, mother of Darius, prostrates herself before Hephæstion, mistaking him for Alexander. Recognizing her error, she attempted an apology, when the King interrupted her, saying, "You are not deceived. He is another Alexander." The royal captives are attended by women, priests, and eunuchs. Engraved by G. Edelinck, Devilliers, G. Audran.—Landon, Musée, ii. Pl. 57; Filhol, i. Pl. 55.

DARLEY, FELIX O. C., born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 23, 1822. Genre painter, self-taught. Works almost exclusively in black and white; well known as an illustrator; has travelled and sketched in Europe. Elected an N.A. in 1852. Works: First Blow for Liberty; Foraging in Virginia; Emigrants attacked by Indians (painted for Prince Napoleon); Scene in the Streets of Rome; Cavalry Charge at Fredericksburg—Virginia (1867); March to the Sea; Sheepfold; Mount Desert; A Cold Snack; Puritans surprised by Indians.—Tuckerman, 471.

DAUBAN, JULES JOSEPH, born in Paris, May 31,1822. History painter, pupil of Auguste Debay; director of School of Fine Arts at Angers. Has also decorated churches and other buildings. Medal, 1864; L. of Honour, 1868. Works: Louis XI. making Guillaume de Cérizay Mayor of Anjou (1861); Trappists receiving a Stranger (1864), Luxembourg Museum; Trappists giving each other the Kiss of Peace before Communion (1865), Angers Museum; Death of a Trappist (1867); Mme. Roland going to the Revolutionary Tribunal (1869); Fra Angelico da Fiesole (1873); Resurrection of Lazarus, Church of St. Bernard, Paris.

DAUBIGNY, CHARLES FRANÇOIS, born in Paris, Feb. 15, 1817, died there, Feb. 20, 1878. Landscape painter, son and pupil of Edmé François D. (1789-1843), landscape painter; visited Italy, and returning in 1836, studied under Delaroche. Exhibited at nearly every Salon after 1838. Medals: 2d class, 1848; 1st class, 1853; 3d class, 1855; 1st class, 1857, 1859, and 1869; L. of Honour, 1859, Officer, 1874. An excellent landscape painter, especially of river scenes, which he painted from a floating studio. Left many etchings. Works: The Seine at Bezons, St. Jerome in the Desert (1840); Harvest (1852); Banks of the Seine (1852), Nantes Museum; Pool of Gylien (1853); Sluice in Valley of Optevoz (1855), Luxembourg Museum; Springtime (1857); Banks of the Oise (1861); The Vintage (1863), Luxembourg Museum; Windmills at Dordrecht (1872); Fields in June (1873); House of Mother Bazot at Valmandois (1874); Fruit-Garden in Normandy (1875); Moon-*rise, View of Dieppe (1877). Works in United States: Morning, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New York; Morning—Landscape, A. Belmont, New York; Landscape, T. H. Stebbins, New York; Landscape, M. Graham, New York; Spring Lake, Shady Pool, Before the Storm, Coast of Normandy, Sunset, B. Wall, Providence; Landscape, T. Wigglesworth, Boston; Landscape, H. P. Kidder, Boston; River Scene, G. Hoadly, Cincinnati; Landscape—Morning, S. A. Coale, St. Louis; Landscape, Charles Parson, ib.; Landscape, View on the Seine, C. H. Wolff,