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Ford, Sharpshooters (1868); On the Road to Valmy, Target of Saint-Chaumont (1869); A Courier, Light Artillery (1874); Forge (1875); Convoy, Autumn Manœuvres (1876); A Battery (1877); Retreat from Inkermann, Winter Campaign (1878); Draught Horses, The Wounded (1880); The General Staff (1881); Forward! The Forge (1882); Washington's Tent, French Cavalry in 1670 (1883); Wellington in Spain (1884); Hollow Way, Lime Kiln (1885).


CHARTRAN, THÉOBALD, born at Besançon; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Cabanel. Won the grand prix de Rome in 1877. Medals: 3d class, 1877; 2d class, 1881. Works: Angelica and Roger (1875); Girl of Argos at Tomb of Agamemnon, Gentleman of Court of Henry II. (1876); St. Saturnin (Church of Champigny-sur-Marne); Martyr in Catacombs at Rome (1877); Woman Playing Lute (1880); The Taper (1881); Vision of St. Francis of Assisi (1883); The Betrothal (1885).


CHASE, HARRY, born in Woodstock, Vt., in 1853. Landscape and marine painter, studied in Munich, at The Hague, and in Paris under Soyer. Elected an A.N.A. in 1883. Studio in New York. Works: Breezy Afternoon off the Battery—New York, T. B. Clarke, New York; Pêcheurs Anglais, Kullen Point—Sweden, Low Tide—Welsh Coast (1878); Herring Fishers of Scheveningen—Holland (1880); Outward Bound Whaler, Dutch Boats at Anchor, Dutch Trawlers (1881); Bringing the Fish Ashore, Departure of a French Brig (1882); Coast of Holland, Dredging for Scallops near New Bedford, Summer Morning—French Coast (1883); Near Dordrecht, Battery Park—New York (1884); Rising Tide on Dutch Coast, New York Harbour (1885).


CHASE, WILLIAM MERRITT, born at Franklin, Indiana, Nov. 1, 1849. Still-life and portrait painter; pupil of B. F. Hayes, portrait painter in Indianapolis, of the National Academy, and of J. O. Eaton, New York. Studied six years from 1872 at the Munich Academy under Wagner and Piloty, and painted one year in Venice. Honourable mention in Salon, 1882. Studio in New York. Works: Portraits of Piloty's Children; Venetian Fish Market; Dowager (1875); Boy Feeding a Cockatoo, Broken Jug (1877); Ready for a Ride, The Apprentice (1878); Interior of St. Mark's—Venice, Court Jester, Portrait of Duveneck (1879); do. of Gen. Webb (1880); do. of Peter Cooper (Paris Salon, 1882); Interior of Artist's Studio (1883); The Coquette (1884).—Am. Art Rev. (1881), 91, 135.


CHASSÉRIAU, THÉODORE, born in Panama, Sept. 20, 1819, died in Paris, Oct. 8, 1856. History and portrait painter, pupil of Ingres, but later an imitator of Delaroche. Medals: 3d class, 1836; 2d class, 1844 and 1855; L. of Honour, 1849. Works: Return of Prodigal Son (1836); Ruth and Boaz (1837); Susanna, Venus Anadyomene (1839); Christ in Garden of Olives (1840); Andromeda (1841); Descent from Cross, Esther preparing to meet Ahasuerus, Captive Trojan Women (1842); Caliph of Constantine (1845); Sabbath in Jewish Quarter of Constantine (1848); Arab Horsemen carrying off their Dead, Desdemona, Moorish Women playing with a Gazelle (1850); Baptism of the Eunuch, St. Francis Xavier baptizing the Indians and the Japanese, mural paintings in a chapel of St. Roch, Paris (1850); Christ with Martha and Mary (1852); Woman of Mola (1850); The Tepidarium, Defense of the Gauls (1855).—Ch. Blanc, École française; Larousse.


CHASTITY, TRIUMPH OF, Luca Signorelli, National Gallery, London; fresco, transferred to canvas, H. 4 ft. × 4 ft. 4 in.; signed. In foreground, Cupid on his knees