Works: Sewing-Room in a Franciscan Monastery; Prayer before Baptism; The Jews; Birthday Celebration in Russia.—Müller, 108.
CLOET, JEHAN. See Clouet, Jean.
CLOSS, GUSTAV, born in Stuttgart, Nov.
14, 1840, died at Prien, on Lake Chiem,
Aug. 14, 1870. Landscape painter, pupil
of Funk in Stuttgart Art School. Visited
Italy in 1863, Munich in 1864, Brussels, Antwerp,
and Paris in 1866, and settled in Munich.
His Italian landscapes are picturesquely
conceived and executed with great
technical skill. His illustrations of German
poets show the influence of Doré. Works:
Villa of Hadrian, Road near Sorrento, Group
of Cypresses near Tivoli, Campagna near
Rome, Piazza della Fontana in Olevano,
Evening at Villa Pamfili, The Lonely Inn,
Christmas Eve, Autumn Night in the Park.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., iv. 342; Kunst-Chronik,
vi. 124.
CLOTILDA, QUEEN, EDUCATION OF
CHILDREN OF, Alma-Tadema, King of the
Belgians. Clotilda, widowed queen of Clovis,
first Christian monarch of France (6th
century), seated upon a throne in background,
is watching her sons, who are
throwing the battle-axe at a wooden target
under the superintendence of an old captain-at-arms.
She is attended by priests
and women; at left, soldiers watching the
play. Painted in 1861. Replica, J. H. Stebbins,
New York.—Art Treasures of America,
i. 95.
CLOUET, FRANÇOIS, born in Tours
about 1500, died between 1570 and 1572.
French school; son and probably pupil of
Jean Clouet; also called, like his father, Janet
or Maître Jehannet. Received letters of
naturalization from Francis I. in 1541, when
he succeeded his father as painter and valet
de chambre to the king; held same offices
under Henry II. and Charles IX. Works:
Portrait of Francis I. (1534), Lord Dudley,
London; Portrait of the Dauphin François
II. (1524), Antwerp Museum; do. of Henri
II. (1553), Louvre; do. as a youth, Hampton
Court; Portrait of Henri II., do. of Duke
of Anjou, Berlin Museum; Equestrian portrait
of Henri II. (copy?), Uffizi, Florence;
do. of Azay le Rideau; Portrait of Charles
IX. (1563), Vienna Museum; copy by Clouet
in little, Louvre; Elizabeth of Austria (1570),
Louvre; Henri III., Duc d'Alençon (1577-78),
Stafford House, London. There are
many other doubtful pictures attributed to
Clouet, as well as hundreds of crayon drawings.
Among the latter are collections in
the Bibliothèque d'Estampes and the Louvre,
Paris, in the British Museum and Stafford
House, London, at Castle Howard, Yorkshire,
and in the Collection of Archduke
Albert, Vienna.—Pattison, Renaissance of
Art in France, i. 327; Ch. Blanc, École française;
Schnasse, viii. 333; W. & W., ii. 527;
Villot, Cat. Louvre; Siret, 205; Gower, Three
Hundred Portraits by Clouet at Castle Howard
(London, 1875); W. & W., ii. 527.
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CLOUET, JEAN, born about 1485, died
in Paris (?)
about 1541.
French
school; son
of Jehan
Cloet, a
painter of
Brussels,
who was in
the service
of the Duke
of Burgundy
about 1475; commonly called Maître Jehannet
or Janet (diminutive of Jehan);
settled in France, first at Tours and afterward
in Paris. Became painter and valet de
chambre to Francis I. in 1518; probably
painted portraits, but no authentic work extant,
unless the Portrait of Francis I.?
(1535-40), Louvre, be one.—Laborde, Renaissance,
etc., i. 1, 79; Fréville, Archives
de l'Art français, i. 1, 97, 287, iv. 44; Ch.
Blanc, Ecole française; Villot, Cat. Louvre;
Pattison, Renaissance of Art in France, i. 307.
CLOVIO, Don GIORGIO GIULIO, born
at Grizane in Illyria in 1498, died in Rome,
