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 *mains of dead kings; one of the riders (portrait of Andrea Uguccione della Faggiuola) holds his nose, while his horse starts backwards. To right, the coming doom: Knights and ladies seated in a bower singing and playing upon musical instruments, while the Angel of Death with scythe descends upon them; one of the nobles is Castruccio Castracani, Lord of Lucca. In centre, Death and his victims: the great of the earth lie in heaps on one side, and on the other the poor and needy are calling for release from their sufferings. In the sky are angels with the souls of the blessed, and devils carrying off the damned. The upper corner of the fresco to the left represents the Monks of the Thebaid, one reading, another milking a goat, and another, St. Macarius, holding a scroll. A rocky country, hermit huts, and a road leading up from that on which the three kings are travelling. Painted about 1377.—Vasari, ed. Mil., i. 468, 597; C. & C., i. 445; Burckhardt, 496.

Triumph of Death, Campo Santo, Pisa.

DEATH AND THE WOODCUTTER (Mort et le Bûcheron), Jean François Millet, Laurent Richard Collection, Paris. Illustration of La Fontaine's fable. Scene—the edge of a wood, with hill, trees, and rocks in background. The old woodcutter, falling under the weight of his load of fagots, calls on Death to relieve him from his troubles; but trembles with fright as Death, shrouded in white drapery like an apparition, with a winged hourglass in one hand and a scythe over his shoulder, seizes him with his bony hand. Painted in 1859; refused at Salon, but exhibited at Exposition Universelle, 1867.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), ii. 362; Sensier, Vie, 192.

DEBACQ, ALEXANDRE, born in Paris, Aug. 12, 1804, died there, Oct. 2, 1850. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Gros. Works: Joan of Arc in Prison (1831); Mary Stuart's Departure from France (1833); Death of Sculptor Jean Goujon; Bernard Palissy destroying his Furniture to fire Vases; Two paintings in Versailles Museum.

DEBAT-PONSAN, ÉDOUARD BERNARD, born in Toulouse; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Cabanel; won 2d grand prix in 1872. Medals: 2d class, 1874; L. of Honour, 1881. Works: First Morning (1874); Respect of St. Louis for the Dead (1879); A Door of the Louvre on St. Bartholomew's Day (1880); A Massage in the Harem (1883); Portraits (1884); Portrait of M. Gaillard (1885).

DEBAY, AUGUSTE HYACINTHE, born at Nantes, April 2, 1804, died in Paris,