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 school; history painter, pupil of Fréminet; worked for many years in Paris, Fontainebleau, and St. Germain en Laye. Works: Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalen; Descent of the Holy Spirit; The Earth; Fire. The History of Ulysses, at Fontainebleau, begun by Primaticcio, was finished by Dubreuil.—Ch. Blanc, École française; Larousse.

DUBUFE, CLAUDE MARIE, born in Paris in 1790, died there, April 24, 1864. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of David. He was the last of David's school, having all its faults with few of its good qualities; but was as popular with the public as he was abused by the critics. Medal, 1st class, 1831; L. of Honour, 1837. Works: Achilles protecting Iphigenia; Roman Family dying of Hunger (1810); Christ allaying the Tempest (1819, St. Leu, Paris); Release of St. Peter (Chaillot); Apollo and Cyparissa (1822); Passage of the Bidassoa (1824); Birth of Duc de Bordeaux (1824), Orléans Museum; Regrets, Memorials (1837); The Surprise (1828), National Gallery, London; Nest of Tomtits (1831); Republic (1849); Bull and Cows (1852); Village Girls of Normandy, Girl Bathing, Birth of Venus (1859); portraits of Louis Philippe, Queen of the Belgians, General Montesquiou-Fesenzac, Versailles Museum.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 461.

DUBUFE, ÉDOUARD, born in Paris in 1818, died in Versailles, Aug. 11, 1883. History and portrait painter, son and pupil of Claude Marie, studied afterwards under Paul Delaroche; between 1841 and 1846 he painted religious pictures, but later confined himself to portraits. Medals: 3d class, 1839; 2d class, 1840, 1855, 1878; 1st class, 1844; L. of Honour, 1853; Officer, 1869. Works: Annunciation (1839); Miracle of Roses (1840); Poetry and Music (1840); Tobias (1841), Lisieux Museum; The Three Cardinal Virtues (1842); Bathsheba (1844); Morning Prayer (1844), Tuileries, Paris; Prisoner of Chillon (1846), Aix Museum; Sleep (1866); Prodigal Son (1867); Death of Adonis (1877). Portraits of his Wife (1842); Jules Janin and Paul Gayrard (1846); Empress Eugénie (1855); Rosa Bonheur (1857); Congress of Paris (1857), Versailles Museum; Princess Mathilde, Duchess de Medina Cœli, Marquise de Gallifet, Princess Ghika (1861); Robert-Fleury (1863); Gounod (1867); Gen. Fleury, Comte de Nieuwerkerke (1869); Medje (1872); Alexander Dumas, Jr. (1873); Philippe Rousseau (1876), Émile Augier (1876), Luxembourg Museum.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 461; Larousse, vi. 1,320; Müller, 145; Meyer, Gesch., 390; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 696; Vapereau.

DUBUFE, GUILLAUME, born in Paris; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, son and pupil of Édouard Dubufe; student also of Mazerolle. Medals: 3d class, 1877; 2d class, 1878. Works: Study (1877); Saint Cecilia (April, 1878); Music, Sacred and Profane (1882); A Nest (1884).—Zeitschr. f. b. K., xvii. 376.

DUC. See Ducq.

DUCCIO DI BUONINSEGNA, born in Siena about 1260, died after 1339. Sienese school; the earliest great painter of Siena, where he is first heard of in 1282. In 1285 he was in Florence, as records show that he then contracted to paint an altarpiece of the Madonna for S. M. Novella, probably never executed, and in the autumn of that year at Siena, where he was appointed to fill an office, which he held until 1291. In 1301 he began a Majesty for the chapel of the Public Palace of Siena, of which no record remains, and seven years later commenced for the Duomo the famous altarpiece by which he is best known. In 1310 it was carried by the rejoicing people in procession through the streets to be installed in its destined place. The panel, on one side of which was painted the Virgin enthroned