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 DELPY, CAMILLE HIPPOLYTE, born at Joigny (Youne); contemporary. Landscape painter, pupil of Corot and Daubigny. Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works: Solitude (1878); Snow Landscape, Banks of the Seine (1879); Autumn Harvest (1880); Entrance to Dordrecht, Moonrise (1881); Dawn of Day, Twilight (1882); Quay of Fish Market at Dieppe (1883); Bank of the Morin at Esbly (1884); Before the Storm, Poltaise (1885).

DE LUCE, PERCIVAL, born in New York, Feb. 24, 1847. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of the Antwerp Academy under Van Lerius, of Portaels in Brussels, and of Bonnât in Paris. Exhibits at the National Academy. Studio in New York. Works: Portrait, C. H. Hudson; Children Gleaning (1879); Winter (1880); Thankful Blossoms (1881); Reverie (1882); Powder for the Besieged—Wheeling, Va., 1777 (1883); Knitting Lesson (1884); Buttercups and Daisies, The Forbidden Book (1885).

DELUGE, Girodet de Roussy, Louvre; canvas, H. 14 ft. 1 in. × 11 ft. 2 in. A man, bearing his father upon his shoulders and holding by the right hand his wife, to whom two children are clinging, endeavours to gain the summit of a rock by means of a tree which breaks in his grasp. Painted in 1810; won grand prize for history over David's Sabines. Acquired in 1818, with Endymion and Burial of Attala, for 50,000 fr.—Réveil, i. 22.

By Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, Rome; fresco on ceiling.

Deluge, Nicolas Poussin, Louvre, Paris.

By Nicolas Poussin, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 3 ft. 10 in. × 5 ft. 3 in. Called also L'Hiver (Winter). The Deluge, with the Ark floating on the waters; in middle-ground, where the current forms a cascade, a half-submerged vessel with figures, one of them with raised hands, imploring for mercy; in second plane at left, the serpent tempter gliding toward the crevices of a rock; at right, a mass of rock and persons trying to reach it in a boat; below, two men, one on horseback, struggling with the waves. Painted, with Paradise, Ruth and Boaz, and Return of Spies, in 1660-64, for Duc de Richelieu; in Château Meudon in 1709-10. Engraved by J. Audran, P. Laurent, Eichler, Devilliers, Bovinet.—Filhol, x. Pl. 610; Landon, iii. Pl. 28; Villot, Cat. Louvre.

By Joseph M. W. Turner, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 4 ft. 9 in. × 7 ft. 9 in. Illustration of Milton's Paradise Lost. Royal Academy, 1813; Turner Collection. Engraved by J. B. Quilley.—Cat. Nat. Gal.

DEMARNE. See Marne.

DEMAREST, GUILLAUME ALBERT, born in Rouen, France; contemporary. Pupil of J. P. Laurens and J. Lavée. Medal, 3d class, 1883. Works: Grandmother, Rape of Psyche (1879); Voyage in Extremis (1880); At the Cemetery (1883); Evening (1884); At the Studio (1885).

DEMETRIUS, painter and lecturer, surnamed Graphicus, date unknown. (Diog. Laer. V. Dem. xi.) Perhaps identical with