unpleasant in tone. Works: Christ on the Cross, The Magdalen, St. Christopher carrying Infant Christ (attributed to Patenier), National Gallery, London; Temptation of St. Anthony, Brussels Museum; Repose in Egypt, Antwerp Museum; Holy Family, Basle Museum; St. Hubert Hunting, Maurice Chapel, Nuremberg; Adoration of the Magi (signed: Henricus Blessius F.), Angelic Salutation, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Male portrait with landscape, Berlin Museum; Pedler robbed by Monkeys, Dresden Gallery; Flight into Egypt (?), St. John Preaching, Good Samaritan, Walk to Emmaus, Repose in Egypt (called style of Patenier), Museum, Vienna; Christ bearing the Cross, St. John preaching, Academy, ib.; St. Jerome in the Desert (attributed to Patenier), Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Dante's Inferno, Doge's Palace, Venice; Temptation of St. Anthony, Museo Civico, ib.; Tower of Babel, Academy, ib.; Madonna, Working a Mine, Uffizi, Florence; Christ bearing the Cross, Palazzo Doria, Rome; Landscapes (5), Naples Museum; Adoration of the Magi (?), Milan Academy; do. and Landscape (attributed to Patenier), Madrid Museum.—Biogr. nat. de Belgique, ii. 471; Michiels, iv. 368, 391; ix. 115; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 44; Rooses (Reber), 114; W. & W., ii. 522; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xv. 128.
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BLESSING THE HARVEST, (Bénédiction des blés), Jules Breton, Luxembourg Museum; canvas, H. 4 ft. 3 in. × 10 ft. 5 in. Ceremony of blessing the harvest in Artois. A procession, headed by young girls in white, followed by the priest under a canopy attended by choir boys, the village officials, and peasants in their old-fashioned holiday clothes, pass through the fields; in fore-*ground, women and children kneeling. Salon, 1857.—Meyer, Gesch., 642.
BLIND FIDDLER, Sir David Wilkie,
National Gallery, London; wood, H. 1 ft.
11 in. × 2 ft. 7 in. An itinerant musician,
seated at left, entertaining a cottager and
his family by playing on his fiddle. Twelve
figures; accessories very elaborate. Painted
in 1807 for Sir George Beaumont, who presented
it in 1826. Engraved by J. Burnet,
T. Nicholson.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Heaton,
Works of Sir D. W.; Mollett, 26; Waagen,
Art Treasures, i. 376.
BLIND-MAN'S-BUFF, Sir David Wilkie,
Buckingham Palace; canvas. Cottagers
playing blind-man's-buff in a kitchen.
Painted in 1812 for George IV. when Prince
Regent, who paid for it 300 guineas. Loan
Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1883. Original
sketch (1811) in National Gallery. Engraved
by A. Raimbach, W. Greatbach.—Heaton,
Works of Sir D. W.; Mollett, 42,
46; Waagen, Art Treasures, ii. 25; Art
Journal (1860), 108.
BLOCH, ALEXANDRE, born in Paris;
contemporary. Landscape and genre painter;
pupil of Gérôme and Bastien-Lepage.
Medal, 3d class, 1885. Works: At the
Antiquary's (1880); Banks of Seine at Vaux
(1881), M. Delorière; Crab Fisherman, Mill
of Jarcy (1882); Willows of Bonneuil, Chemin
du Chapitre at Crétail (1883); Place de
la Chapelle—Paris, Brook of Moc-Souris—Morbihan
(1884); Defence of Rochefort-en-Terre—April
29, 1793 (1885).
BLOCH, KARL HEINRICH, born in
Copenhagen, May 23, 1834. Genre and history
painter; pupil of Copenhagen Academy;
studied from nature among peasantry
of Zealand and on coast of Jutland,
and soon acquired reputation for humourous
pictures. Studio in Rome from
1859 to 1865. Since then has painted
mostly historical subjects. He is a member
of and professor at the Copenhagen Academy.
Medals in 1852, 1853, 1864; Order
of Danebrog, 1867. Works: Peasant's
Cottage (1854); Fisherman's Family on
Shore (1858); Repast (1859); Fisherman
from Sorrento (1861), Copenhagen Gallery;
