Page:Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, 1887, vol 4.djvu/430

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VIEN Little Tony (1844) ; Oracle of the Fields, Inquisitive Little Girl, Self-Love, Fatinit- za (1845); Season for Hoses, Satisfaction, Woman Listening (1846) ; Season for Fruit, Daughter of Eve, Darling Sin, (1847); Fallen Angel, Tear of Repentance, Polyhym- nia (1849) ; Flowers and Jewels (1852) ; Portrait of the Empress Eugenie, Fancies (1853); Loves of the Angels (1855); Bre- ton Poacher, Rain in Brittany, Plouescat Peasants returning Home, Muse of Luxury (1857); Evening Prayer in Brittany, The Muse of Candour, Prayer (1859) ; Broken Thread, Flower Girl (1861) ; Farm in Brit- tany, Loves of the Angels (1866) ; Breton Trooper, Ferns (1868) ; Brittany in Autumn (1870); Fever -Stricken Bretons, Hasty- Pudding (1873) ; Edge of a Moor (1874) ; Pond in Quimerch (1875) ; Farm in Finis- terre, Pond in Quimerch (1879) ; The Hello, Pond in Quimerets (1880) ; Hollow Eoad in Brittany, A Heath (1881) ; Shore of a Pond, Mill of Losten-Vir (1882) ; Calm on a Pond, Ruins in an old Park (1883) ; Pike's Nest, Moor in Brittany (1884) ; Beech-Tree Offal, Autumn (1885) ; Glade, Beech-Tree Avenue (1886). Bellier, ii. 670; Meyer, Gesch., 388 ; Larousse. VIEN, JOSEPH MARIE, Count, born at Montpellier, June 18, 1716, died in Paris, March 27, 1809. French school ; histo- ry painter, pupil of Giral and of Natoire in Paris ; won grand prix in 1743, spent five years in Rome, and af- ter his return became member of the Acade- my, and adjunct professor in 1754, and pro- fessor in 1759. With Regnault, David, Vin- cent, and Suvee, he founded the modern clas- sical school. In 1775-81 he was director of the Academy at Rome, in 1781 became rector and in 1788 chancellor of the Paris Academy, in 1789 first painter to the king, and in 1795 member of the Institute. Or- der of St. Michael, 1775. Napoleon made him a senator, count, and commander of the Legion of Honour. Works: St. Germain and St. Vincent (1755), Daedalus and Icarus (1754), Sleeping Hermit (1750), Cupids play- ing with Swans, Flowers and Doves (1758), Louvre ; Miraculous Draught of Fishes (1759), Marseilles Museum ; Christ with the Disciples at Emmaus (1759), Resurrection, Hermit Asleep (study for painting in the Louvre), Orleans Museum ; St. Germain giving a Medal to St. Genevieve (1761), Saint Louis, Versailles ; Rape of Proserpine (1763), Grenoble Museum ; Marcus Aurelius ordering Food to be distributed during a Famine (1765), Amiens Museum ; St. De- nis preaching the Gospel in France (1767), St. Roch, Paris ; St. Gregory (1767), Sacris- ty, St. Louis, Versailles ; The Magdalen (1775), Verdun Cathedral ; Briseis led from the Tent of Achilles (1781), Return of Pria- mus with the Body of Hector (1785), Angers Museum ; Circumcision, Bordeaux Museum ; Moses with the Law Tables, Douai Muse- um ; Lot and his Daughters, Havre Muse- um; Christ healing the Son of the Cap- tain of Capernaum, Marseilles Museum ; St. Gregory the Great, St. John in the Desert, Old Man Asleep, Academical Figure, Mont- pellier Museum ; Religion, Nancy Museum ; Christ on the Cross, Nimes Museum ; Anger of Achilles, Rouen Museum. His wife and pupil, Marie Therese, nee Reboul (born in Paris in 1728, died there, Dec. 28, 1805), was a good miniature painter, and received into the Academy in 1757. Their son, Joseph Marie (born in 1762, died in 1848), was a portrait painter, pupil of his father and of Vincent. Portraits of himself and his wife are in the Rouen Museum ; a portrait of his fa- ther is in the Mont- pellier Museum. Bellier, ii. 672 ; Bi- og.univ.,xliii.357; Ch. Blanc, Ecole , iii. ; EmSric-David, Sur Vien (Pa- ris, 1809) ; Jal, 12G5 ; Le Breton, Not. hist. J.V