- vas. Cleopatra, as Aphrodite, reclines on a
couch covered with cushions and rich robes, with her head raised awaiting the sting of the adder coiled around her arm. One of her women is kneeling at her feet, covering her face in despair; another is asleep on the floor. The apartment, which is adorned with costly vessels and tropical plants, is lighted by a tall candelabrum. Painted in 1875.
Subject treated also by Guido Cagnacci, Vienna Museum; Germann van Bohn, Nantes Museum; Regnault, and others.
CLEOPATRA LANDING AT TARSUS,
Claude Lorrain, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 3
ft. 11 in. × 5 ft. 6 in. At right, Cleopatra,
accompanied by six women, and aided by
Dellius, an officer of Antony, is landing before
a palace, the steps of which are washed
by the sea; Antony, followed by officers,
advancing to meet her; at left, several vessels,
from one of which sailors are unlading
vases of gold and silver. Painted in
Rome about 1647, for Cardinal Angelo
Giorio, from whom passed to Louis XIV.
Liber Veritatis, No. 63. Similar picture in
Collection of Sir J. Reynolds, sold (1795)
for 250 guineas.—Villot, Cat. Louvre; Pattison,
Claude Lorrain, 212, 241.
CLERCK, HENDRIK DE, born in
Brussels in 1570, died in 1629. Flemish
school; pupil of Marten de Vos, to whose
style he adhered; distinguished for the
poetic treatment of his pictures. Works:
Holy Family, Christ and the Children,
Brussels Museum; Figures in a landscape
by Alsloot, Vienna Museum.—Michiels, v.
433.
CLEVE. See Cleef.
CLICHY, BARRIÈRE DE, Horace Vernet,
Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 3 ft. 2 in. ×
4 ft. 3 in.; signed, dated 1820. Defence of
Paris in 1814. Marshal Moncey gives orders
to Chief of Battalion Odiot to prevent the
Russians from taking possession of the hill
of Montmartre. Among the figures are:
Moncey, Odiot, M. de Marguery-Dupaty,
and Charles and Horace Vernet. Formerly
in Luxembourg. Engraved by Jazet.—Cat.
Louvre.
CLINT, ALFRED, born in London in
1807. Landscape and marine painter; son
and pupil of Geo. Clint, and studied in British
Institute. Began as a portrait painter;
became member of Society of British Artists
in 1850, was its secretary for several
years, and elected its president in 1869.
Paints chiefly coast scenery and sunset
effects. Works: Lake Scene at Sunset,
Sunset at Hastings, Philadelphia Exposition,
1876; Twilight, Paris Exposition, 1878;
St. Michael's Mount—Cornwall, Entrance to
Harbour of Little Hampton (1877).—Ottley.
CLINT, GEORGE, born in London, April
12, 1770, died there, May 10, 1854. Portrait
painter; was a house-painter, from which he
advanced to miniatures, and finally became
successful both in water-colours and in oils.
He painted a valuable series of dramatic pictures,
comprising portraits of the favourite
actors of the time in their most successful
scenes, many of which are preserved in the
Garrick Club. Was elected an A.R.A. in
1821, but resigned in 1836 and became an
opponent of the Academy, to the exhibitions
of which he had contributed 94 pictures.
Works: Falstaff and Mistress Ford, National
Gallery, London; Hamlet and Ophelia
(1831), Paul Pry (1831), Honeymoon, S.
Kensington Museum; Spoilt Child, Lord
Liverpool, and many portraits in private
collections. Was also a good mezzotint engraver.—Redgrave;
Bryan (Graves).
CLODT, MICHAEL CONSTANTINOVICH,
Baron, born in St. Petersburg in 1836.
Landscape painter; pupil of the St. Petersburg
Academy, where he won the first prize
in 1858; professor there since 1864. Works:
Road in Autumn Rain; View in Government
of Orel; Return from the Field; Plain with
Cattle.—Müller, 108.
CLODT, MICHAEL PETROVICH, Baron,
born in St. Petersburg in 1839. Genre
painter; pupil of the St. Petersburg Academy,
where he won the first prize in 1861.
