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 9, 1833. History, figure, and portrait painter, pupil of H. Vernet and L. Cogniet. Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works: Last Moments of Francis II. (1865), City Hall, Orléans; Zenobia rescued by the Shepherds (1867), Young Girl bitten by Reptile and rescued by her Brother, Orléans Museum; Children surprised by Storm (1868); Disciples at Emmaus (1869); Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (1874); Christ on the Cross (1875); Entombment, Meditation (1876); Bashi-Bazouks abducting Woman (1877); The Wave (1879); The Cup is Empty (1880); Portraits (1880, 1881, 1882); Mother playing with her Child (1883); Bathing Woman, Repose (1884); Rape of Psyche, Portrait of Henri Mercier (1885).

DURAN. See Carolus-Duran.

DURAND, ASHER BROWN, born in South Orange, N. J., Aug. 21, 1796. Landscape painter; prominent as an engraver until 1835, when he turned his attention to painting; studied in Europe in 1840. One of original members of National Academy, and its president from 1845 to 1861. His earliest works were portraits. Works: Wrath of Peter Stuyvesant; Capture of André; Harvey Birch and Washington; Forest Primeval; Franconia Mountains; Dance on the Battery; Alpine View, near Meyringen; In the Woods (1867), Jonathan Sturges, New York; Trysting Tree (1869), Benjamin H. Field, ib.; August Afternoon, L. Tuckerman, ib.; Sketcher (1870); Close of Day (1871); Harbour Island—Lake George (1873); Franconia Notch (1874)—Pemigewasset River, Scene in the Woods, R. L. Stuart, New York; Thanatopsis, J. P. Morgan, ib.; Landscape, M. K. Jesup, ib.; Berkshire Hills, Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland; Il Pappagallo, Brook Study, Studies from Nature (1876); Recollection of Adirondack Scenery (1880).—Sheldon, 128.

DURAND, SIMON, born in Geneva; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Barthélemy Menn; subjects original, and mostly humourous. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1875. Works: Barber Shop, Permit to Stay (1873);	Conjugal Dispute, Perplexed Brazier (1874);	Marriage at the Mayor's Office, Band of Vagabonds (1875); Marriage at Church (1876); A Market, Between Fruit and Cheese (1877); Acrobat's Wounded Child (1878); An Alarm, Blacksmith's Leisure (1879); Bonhomme Noël (1880); Birds of Passage, An Apprentice (1882); A Scandal (1883); Sentimental Tinker (1885).

DURAND-BRAGER, JEAN BAPTISTE HENRI, born at Dol (Ille-et-Vilaine), May 21, 1814, died in Paris, April 27, 1879. Marine painter, pupil of Gudin and Eugéne Isabey; accompanied the fleet which carried Napoleon's remains from St. Helena (1840), the expeditions to Tangiers, Mogador, Madagascar, and the Crimea, making many studies and pictures. In 1865 he accompanied Napoleon III. to Algiers as artist, and in the same year painted the review of the united French and English fleets near Cherbourg, Brest, and Spithead. Medal, 3d class, 1844; L. of Honour, 1844; Officer, 1865. Works: Fight between French Frigate Niemen and English Frigates Arethusa and Amethyst (1844), Bordeaux Museum; Conquest of Mogador (1845), Views (21) of Sebastopol during the Siege, 1854-55, Versailles Museum; Entry into Harbour of Marseilles, Battle of Lissa.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 497; Meyer, Gesch., 753.

DÜRCK, FRIEDRICH, born in Leipsic, in 1809, died in Munich, Oct. 25, 1884. Portrait and genre painter, pupil in Munich of his uncle, Joseph Stieler, and of the Academy; travelled in 1836-37 in Italy, studying after the old masters in Florence and Rome. Since 1867 has been honorary member of the Munich Academy. Works: Portraits of Leuchtenberg Family, Louis I. of Bavaria, Oscar of Sweden (1849); His