minister of Sardinia under Victor Emmanuel and distinguished also as a scholar. Works: Fight of Italian and French Knights at Barletta, Origin of the Sforza Family, Ulysses Received by Nausicaa, My Wood, Battle of Legnano.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 494.
BAADE, KNUD, born near Stavenger,
Norway, March 28, 1808, died in
Munich, Nov. 24, 1879. Landscape
and marine painter, pupil of Copenhagen
Academy in 1827-30. After painting portraits
in Christiania, went to Dresden, where
he studied under Dahl in 1836-39; went
again to Dresden in 1843 and settled in Munich
in 1846. He was Swedish court painter
and member of the Stockholm Academy.
Works: Moonlight Night on Norwegian
Coast, Christiania Gallery;
do., Munich Gallery; Steamboat on
the Cliffs.—Am. Art Rev. (1880), 179; Künst-Chronik,
xv. 194; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii.
499; Regnet, i. 11.
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BAADER, LOUIS MARIE, born at Lannion, June 20, 1828. History and genre painter; pupil of Yvon and of the École des Beaux Arts. After treating antique subjects, exhibited in Salons in 1866-68, his humorous picture of a man shaving a poodle dog (The Toilette) had great success in the Salon of 1873. Medal 1866; 3d class, 1874. Works: Destruction of Camulodunum; Hero and Leander; Ulysses and Nausicaa; Salmacis and Hermaphroditus; Posthumous Fame (1874); Savoyard's Lyre, Remorse, Tinker, Episode in Sparta (1877); Mistake, Faience Mender (1878).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 500; Müller, 20; Kunst-Chronik, viii. 86.
BAAGE, CARL EMIL, born in Copenhagen,
Aug. 22, 1829. Marine painter, pupil
of Copenhagen Academy; visited Iceland
and Norway and made several cruises on
royal men-of-war. Works: Vessels in the
Sund (1855); Frigate Facing Storm in the
Atlantic (1872).—Sigurd Müller, 17; Weilbach,
38.
BABUREN, THEODOR VAN, born probably
at Utrecht in 1570 (?), died there in
1624 (?). Dutch school; history and genre
painter, closely resembling G. Honthorst in
choice of subjects and realistic treatment.
Works: Entombment (1617), S. Pietro in
Montorio, Rome; Portrait of Young Singer
(1623), Castle Langenstein near Halberstadt;
Clarinet Player, Conversation, Prometheus
Bound (1623); Adam and Eve; Bacchanal.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., ii. 503.
BABYLONIAN MARRIAGE MARKET,
Edwin Long, Holloway Institute, Egham,
near London. The sale of a tall, fair damsel,
standing on a platform before a crowd of
Babylonians, whom her uncommon charms
have evidently stirred to the heart. At the
salesman's bidding she raises her white veil,
while a negress shifts the long light robe
from her torso, of which we see only the
back; in front, a row of dusky beauties.
Royal Academy, 1875; C. Hermon sale
(1882), £6,615.—Art Journal (1875), 250;
Athen., May, 1875, 490.
BACCHANAL, Giovanni Bellini and Titian,
Alnwick Castle, England; canvas, 6 ft. square;
signed, dated 1514. The gods, feasting and
drinking in a woody glade; background, a
rocky hill, with a castle—view of Cadore,
seen from the point of Previs. Begun in
1514 for Duke Alfonso of Ferrara by Bellini,
who sketched and dated it, but was prevented
from finishing on account of his
great age, says Vasari; finished by Titian.
Was in the Ludovisi and Aldobrandini collections,
Rome, before going to England.
Much retouched.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 191;
Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 433; Campori, Tiziano
e gli Estense, Nuova Antologia, Nov. 1874;
Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 412, 418.
By Dosso Dossi, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; canvas, 4 ft. 9 in. square. A motley group of ladies and gentlemen, some of them half nude, pressing round a table on which lie masks, musical instruments, etc.—Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 488.
By Titian, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 5 ft. 9 in. × 6 ft. 4 in.; signed. Bacchantes