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 with Saints, Bishops, and Angels, and on the other the Passion in twenty-eight subjects, was afterwards divided, and the parts hung one at each end of the transept. Preserving traditional types, Duccio gave the Madonna the hitherto unknown and afterwards characteristic grace of Sienese Madonnas, and treated attitudes, draperies, and proportions with a then novel approach to correctness. The scenes from the Passion show the same clinging to past forms, the same effort to follow nature, and convey a like impression of life and power imperfectly realized. The few other works of this remarkable painter are two pictures of the Madonna with Saints in the Siena Academy; a Crucifixion, Madonna, and other subjects, belonging to the Queen of England; a Madonna with Angels, Prophets, and Saints, National Gallery, London; and the Preaching of St. John Baptist, and SS. Peter and Paul, Rambona Collection, Cologne.—C. & C., Italy, i. 40; Vasari, ed. Mil., i. 653; Burckhardt, 491; Dohme, 2i.; Sienesische Malerschule; L'Art (1878), iii. 151; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 99.

DUCHATEL (du Chastel), FRANS, born in Brussels in 1616 or 1625, died there in 1694. Flemish school; genre and portrait painter, pupil and imitator of Teniers the younger. A sojourn in France brought him under the influence of Van der Meulen. Good draughtsman and colourist. Works: Portraits of a Cavalier and two other Persons, Louvre; Charles II. of Spain receiving Homage (1668), Ghent Museum; Panorama of Valenciennes (1656), Antwerp Museum (attributed to Teniers); Portrait of Flemish Nobleman, Berlin Museum.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, vi. 224; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Gaz. des B. Arts (1862), xii. 5, 247.

DUCHET. See Dughet.

DUCIS, LOUIS, born in Paris, Nov. 1, 1773, died March 2, 1847. French school; history and portrait painter, pupil of David; also studied in Italy. Medal, 1st class, 1808; L. of Honour, 1832. Works: Hero and Leander, Orpheus and Eurydice, Origin of Painting (1808); Pyramus and Thisbe (1810, 1812); Tasso reading his Jerusalem Delivered, Captivity of Tasso (1814); Death of Tasso (1817); The Arts influenced by Love (4), Mary Stuart, Sculpture (1822); Bianca Capello and her Lover in Flight (1824); Captivity of Jeanne d'Arc (1831); View of Paris from Pontneuf (1838); Mary Stuart and Rizzio, Portraits, Aix Museum; Van Dyck painting his First Picture, Lyons Museum.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 465.

DUCK (Duc, Le Duc, Van Duck), A. J., flourished about 1630-50, probably at Haarlem. Dutch school; genre and portrait painter; formed himself under the influence of Dirk Hals; hitherto erroneously identified with Jan le Ducq, the animal painter. Works: Guard-room, Marauders, Louvre; Stable, Portrait of an Officer (attributed to A. Palamedes), National Museum, Amsterdam; five pictures, Gotha Museum; three, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Foraging Soldiers, Berlin Museum; two portraits, Dresden Gallery; do., Wörlitz Gallery; Portrait of J. Asselyn, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Pictures in Carlsruhe, Cassel, Stuttgart, Weimar, Meiningen (2), Aschaffenburg, Schwerin (2), Copenhagen (2), Hamburg Galleries; do., Museum and Academy, Vienna; Trictrac Players, three others, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; one at each, Czernin and Schönborn Galleries, ib.; do., National Museum, Pesth; four, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Bode, Studien, 133; Burger, Musées, ii. 245; Kramm, ii. 377; Meyer, Gemälde köngl. Mus., 127.