of willows on the water's brink strikes in dark shade against the light of a gray October sky; in foreground, thickly-set water-reeds. Mr. Millais's first exhibited landscape. Royal Academy, 1871. Etched by Brunet Debaines.—Art Journal (1871), 149; Builder (1871), 380.
CHIMENTI, JACOPO. See Empoli.
CHINTREUIL, ANTOINE, born at Pont-de-Vaux,
Ain, May 5, 1814, died at Septeuil,
Seine-et-Oise, Aug. 10, 1873. Landscape
painter, pupil of Corot; industrious
and original, especially skilful in treatment
of foreground and of sunlight. His pictures
have increased in value since his death.
Medal, 1867; L. of Honour, 1870. Works:
Valley of Igny (1852); The Moors, Autumn
Evening (1853); The Country in the Morning
(1855); After the Rain, Reims Museum;
Evening, Angers Museum; Paths bordered
with Apple-Trees, Coming out of the Woods
(1857), Bourg Museum; The Deer Pond,
Mende Museum; Rain (1859); The Aube
after a Stormy Night, Potato Field, Broom-Plant
in Flower (1861); Fields in the Early
Dawn, Field of Sainfoin, November (1863,
rejected by the Salon, but admired by the
critics); Sunset with Ruins, Macon Museum;
Meadow (1864); Scotch Mist, St.
Malo Museum; Vapors of Evening (1865);
Twilight, Pont-de-Vaux Museum; Country
during a Hailstorm (1866), Rodez Museum;
Meadows with Oats, Country in Autumn
(1867); Aurora, Flood (1868); Space, Woods
in Sunlight (1869); The Moon, A Beam of
Sunlight on a field of Sainfoin (1870); Apple-Trees
and Broom-Plants in Blossom, Close
of Day (1872); Rain and Sunlight, Low
Tide, The White Road (1873); Thicket
with Deer (1873), Luxembourg Museum.—Larousse;
Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 508.
CHIODAROLO, GIOVANNI MARIA,
flourished about 1520. Bolognese school;
pupil of Francesco Francia and rival of
Aspertini, Girolamo da Cotignola, and Innocenzo
da Imola. An Adoration of the Child
by him is in the Bologna Gallery.—Ch.
Blanc, École bolonaise; Burckhardt, 585, 586.
CHODOVIECKI, DANIEL NICOLAUS,
born in Dantzic, Oct. 16, 1726, died in Berlin,
Feb. 7, 1801.
German school;
portrait painter,
taught drawing
by his father, an
amateur; later
studied in Berlin
under Haid, a
pupil of Rugendas,
until 1745,
when he devoted
himself to portrait painting in little. Elected
rector of the Academy in 1764, vice-director
in 1788, and director in 1797. Works:
Calas taking Farewell of his Family (1766);
Blind Man's Buff, Cock-Throwing (1768),
Berlin Museum; Resting
Place in the Thier-*garten,
Leipsic Museum.—Allgem. d. Biog.,
iv. 132; Brockhaus, iv., 330; Dohme, 1ii.;
Woltmann, Aus vier Jahr hunderten, 147;
Pecht, iii. 51; Riegel, 49.
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CHOULANT, THEODOR, born in Dresden, July 18, 1827. Architecture painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Semper; visited Italy and Sicily in 1850-51, lived in Rome in 1858-61 and studied again in Venice and Florence in 1864 and 1873-74. Saxon court-painter in 1868. Works: Castle S. Angelo, Rome, Dresden Museum; The Eight Ancestral Castles of the House of Saxony (fresco), Royal Palace, ib.; Vestibule, Court-theatre, ib.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 202.
CHRIST AND THE ADULTERESS.
See Woman taken in Adultery.
CHRIST WITH ANGELS (Crucifix aux
Anges), Charles Lebrun, Louvre, Paris; canvas,
H. 5 ft. 9 in. × 4 ft. 2 in. Angels in the
air and others kneeling on the ground are in
adoration before Christ expiring on the cross.
At foot of cross, the crown of France on a
blue velvet cushion. Painted in 1686 to
illustrate a dream of the queen-mother,
Anne of Austria. Engraved by G. Edelinck,
P. Drevet.—Villot, Cat. Louvre.
