- mains of dead kings; one of the riders (portrait
of Andrea Uguccione della Faggiuola) holds his nose, while his horse starts backwards. To right, the coming doom: Knights and ladies seated in a bower singing and playing upon musical instruments, while the Angel of Death with scythe descends upon them; one of the nobles is Castruccio Castracani, Lord of Lucca. In centre, Death and his victims: the great of the earth lie in heaps on one side, and on the other the poor and needy are calling for release from their sufferings. In the sky are angels with the souls of the blessed, and devils carrying off the damned. The upper corner of the fresco to the left represents the Monks of the Thebaid, one reading, another milking a goat, and another, St. Macarius, holding a scroll. A rocky country, hermit huts, and a road leading up from that on which the three kings are travelling. Painted about 1377.—Vasari, ed. Mil., i. 468, 597; C. & C., i. 445; Burckhardt, 496.
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Triumph of Death, Campo Santo, Pisa.
DEATH AND THE WOODCUTTER
(Mort et le Bûcheron), Jean François Millet,
Laurent Richard Collection, Paris. Illustration
of La Fontaine's fable. Scene—the
edge of a wood, with hill, trees, and rocks in
background. The old woodcutter, falling
under the weight of his load of fagots, calls
on Death to relieve him from his troubles;
but trembles with fright as Death, shrouded
in white drapery like an apparition, with a
winged hourglass in one hand and a scythe
over his shoulder, seizes him with his bony
hand. Painted in 1859; refused at Salon,
but exhibited at Exposition Universelle,
1867.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), ii. 362; Sensier,
Vie, 192.
DEBACQ, ALEXANDRE, born in Paris,
Aug. 12, 1804, died there, Oct. 2, 1850.
History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil
of Gros. Works: Joan of Arc in Prison
(1831); Mary Stuart's Departure from France
(1833); Death of Sculptor Jean Goujon;
Bernard Palissy destroying his Furniture to
fire Vases; Two paintings in Versailles Museum.
DEBAT-PONSAN, ÉDOUARD BERNARD,
born in Toulouse; contemporary.
Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Cabanel;
won 2d grand prix in 1872. Medals:
2d class, 1874; L. of Honour, 1881. Works:
First Morning (1874); Respect of St. Louis
for the Dead (1879); A Door of the Louvre
on St. Bartholomew's Day (1880); A Massage
in the Harem (1883); Portraits (1884); Portrait
of M. Gaillard (1885).
DEBAY, AUGUSTE HYACINTHE, born
at Nantes, April 2, 1804, died in Paris,
