- traits of Old and Middle-Aged Man, Berlin
Museum; Seven Portraits, Brunswick Museum; Six Portraits and St. Jerome, Dresden Gallery; Portraits of Old Man and Old Woman, Old Pinakothek, Munich; do. (1721 and 1726), Vienna Museum; Portrait of Old Woman (1724), Louvre; Others in Stuttgart, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Christiania, and Florence Galleries.—Allgem. d. Biogr., v. 54; Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 563; Larousse, vi. 441.
DENNEULIN, JULES, born at Lille
(Nord) in 1835. Genre painter, pupil of
Colas. Medal, 3d class, 1875. Works:
Triste Recette (1875); Rest of Hunters
(1876); Wedding Dinner (1877); Reading
the Will, Difficult Passage (1878); Amateur
Quartette, Mayor's Burial (1879); Benediction,
Rural Postman (1880); Return from a
Meeting, A Shower (1881); Worm Gatherers
(1882); Return from Fishing (1883); Interrupted
Wedding, A Reprobate (1884);
False Arrest, Fisherman (1885).
DENTONE, IL, born in Bologna in 1576,
died there, Dec. 18, 1632. Bolognese
school. Real name Girolamo Curti; called
Dentone from the deformity of his teeth.
Pupil of Lionello Spada and C. Baglioni.
Worked as a common weaver until twenty-five
years old, when he began to study design,
and soon made himself one of the
foremost decorative painters of his time.
Executed works in many palaces and
churches in Bologna, Parma, and Modena.
He excelled in chiaroscuro, but could not
paint figures, and was aided in this department
by Massari, Guercino, and Guido.—Malvasia,
ii. 105; Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise.
DENYS, FRANS, born in Antwerp about
1610, died after 1655. Flemish school; excellent
portrait painter, showing the influence
of Van Dyck. Free of the guild of
Antwerp in 1631; left Flanders about 1655.
Works: Portraits of Pieter van Horne and
Wife (1637); do. of Andries van Langenberghe
and Wife (1635); Portrait of F. P.
van Broeckhoven (1652), Versailles Museum.
He is usually confounded with his mediocre
son Jacques (born 1644), who was master in
1664 and dean of the guild in 1693; two of
his works in Antwerp Museum.—Biog. nat
de Belgique, v. 602; Cat. du Musée d'Anvers
(1874), 115.
DEPOSITION FROM THE CROSS. See
Descent from the Cross.
DERBY DAY, William P. Frith, National
Gallery, London; canvas, H. 3 ft. 3 in. × 7
ft. 3 in. Scene on the race-course at Epsom,
1856; many figures. Royal Academy,
1858. Bequeathed by Jacob Bell in 1859.
Engraved by August Blanchard.—Art Journal
(1865), 194.
DESBROSSES, JEAN, born in Paris,
May 28, 1835. Landscape painter, pupil
of Ary Scheffer and Chintreuil. Medal, 3d
class, 1882. Works: In the Mountains
(1880); Lake of Chambon, The Gorges of
Chaix (1881); Ascent of the little St. Bernard,
Monistrol d'Allier (1882); Lac d'Annecy,
Val de Pralognan (1883); Aiguilles de
Warens at Sallanches, Mont Blanc—Valley
of Sallanches (1884); Mont Cervin, Val d'Illers
(1885).
DESCAMPS, JEAN BAPTISTE, born at
Dunkirk, Aug. 28, 1706, died at Rouen, July
14, 1791. French school; history painter,
pupil of his maternal uncle, Louis Coypel,
and of Largillière. Painted for Louis XV.
several pictures illustrating his coronation
and his visit to Havre; became member of
the Academy in 1764; settled in Rouen,
where he established a school of design, of
which he was professor and director. Published
"Vie des Peintres flamands, allemands,
et hollandais" (1755-63), and "Voyage
pittoresque de la Flandre et du Brabant"
(1769). His best known picture, A
Mother in her Kitchen with Two Children
(1764), is in the Louvre; Episodes (5) in
History of Dunkirk, Europe, Asia, Africa,
America, Museum, Dunkirk; France restoring
City of Dunkirk, Hotel de Ville, ib.; Artist's
portrait, Rouen Museum.—Bellier de
la Chavignerie, i. 415; Michiels, x. 89; Villot,
Cat. Louvre.
