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 DÜCKER, EUGEN (GUSTAV), born at Arensberg, on the Isle of Oesel, Livonia, Feb. 10, 1841. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy; obtained in 1862 the great gold medal, travelled through Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, and Italy, and settled in Düsseldorf, where, in 1872, he was appointed professor at the Academy. Works: Wood near Düsseldorf, Mill, Strand on Baltic Sea, View on Isle of Rügen, Königsberg Museum; After the Rain, Swamp, Dry River-Bed, Storm, St. Petersburg Academy; Evening Twilight in Rügen, National Gallery, Berlin.—Brockhaus, v. 612; Müller, 146.

DUCORNET, LOUIS CÉSAR JOSEPH, born at Lille, Jan. 10, 1806, died in Paris, April 27, 1856. Born without arms, like Felu. History and portrait painter, pupil of Guillon-Lethière and Gérard. In spite of his deformity he painted creditable pictures. Medals: 2d class, 1820; 1st class, 1822. Works: Slave-Merchant (1833), Arras Museum; Marguerite consulting a Flower (1834); Apparition of Christ to Magdalen (1835); Death of Mary Magdalen (1840), St. André, Lille; Repose in Egypt (1841); Christ in the Sepulchre (1843); St. Denis preaching to Gauls (1846), St. Louis de l'Ile, Paris; Vision of St. Philomela (1846); Nest of Tomtits (1848), Portrait of Gen. Régner, (1849), Lille Museum; Gloria in Excelsis (1850), Church of Auxy-le-Château; Fair Edith finding Body of Harold (1855), Compiègne; Parting of Hector and Andromache, St. Louis administering Justice, Lille Museum.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 467; Larousse.

DUCQ, JAN LE, born at The Hague in 1636 or 1638, died there in 1695. Dutch school; animal and landscape painter, supposed pupil of Paul Potter; joined painters' guild at Hague in 1658, and painted for it a Shepherdess and Cows; also (1662) a Landscape with Herd and Herdsmen is in the Cassel Gallery.—Westrheene, Life of Paul Potter, 123.

DUCQ, JOSEPHUS FRANCISCUS, born at Ledeghem, West Flanders, Sept. 10, 1762, died in Bruges, April 9, 1829. Flemish school; history and genre painter, pupil of Bruges Academy and of Suvée in Paris, where he obtained the first prize in 1792, and another later; went in 1807 to Rome, six years later returned to Paris, and in 1815 became professor at Bruges Academy, afterwards its director; court painter, member of Antwerp and Ghent Academies; Order of Lion. Works: Night and Daybreak, Meleager entreated by his Allies to save Calydon (1804); Devotion of a Scythian (1810); Antonello da Messina in Jan van Eyck's Studio (1820); Angelica and Medoro (1820); Scipio receiving Envoys of Antiochus; Esther and Ahasuerus; School-*master after Bion's Idyl; Engraver Meulemeester at the Vatican, Artist's Portrait; Birth of Venus, Brussels Museum; William I. of Netherlands, Van Gierdergom, Bruges Academy.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, vi. 238; Immerzeel, i. 201.

DUCREUX, JOSEPH, born at Nancy, 1737, died on the road from St. Denis to Paris, July 24, 1802. French school; portrait painter, pupil of De Latour, and intimate friend of Greuze; sent to Vienna in 1769 to paint Marie Antoinette, to whom he became court painter. Member of Vienna and Paris Academies. Excelled in pastel. Works: Portraits of Joseph II. and of Maria Theresa, copies of pictures by other artists, miniatures.—Ch. Blanc, École française; Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 468.

DUEL AFTER THE MASQUERADE (Duel au sortir d'un Bal masqué), Gérôme, William T. Walters, Baltimore; canvas, H. 1 ft. 3 in. × 1 ft. 9 in. A quarrel has taken place at a ball in Paris, and the masquers, without waiting to change their costumes, have adjourned at dawn to the Bois de Bologne to fight under the trees. It is winter, and the ground is covered with new-fallen snow. Pierrot has received a death-wound