John, Bruges, Vienna Museum; Michael Wohlgemuth, Munich Gallery; Jean Jouvenet, Louvre; Sebastien Bourdon, ib.; Bernard van Orley, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Sebastian del Piombo, ib.; Adrian van der Werff, ib.; Pedro Campana, Seville Cathedral; Cornelis Cels, Dominican Church, Antwerp; Garofalo, Brera, Milan, Palazzo Borghese, Rome, Naples Museum; Bartolommeo Barducci, Madrid Museum; Vincenzo Campi, Cremorne Cathedral; Cosimo Tura, National Gallery, London; and many others.
DESCHAMPS, LOUIS, born at Montélimar
(Dôrme); contemporary. Genre and
portrait painter, pupil of Cabanel. Medal,
1877. Works: Poor Little Girl (1877);
Little Winnower defending his Grain (1878);
Death of Mireille (1879); Woman Dreaming,
Vincent Wounded (1881); Resignation,
First Step (1882); Happiest of the Three,
Girl Mother (1883); Spring Day, Research
for Paternity (1884); The Twins, Alarm
(1885).
DESCHWANDEN, PAUL, born at Stanz,
Unterwalden, Switzerland, 1811; died 1881.
History painter, studied from 1840 in Italy
after Raphael, and at once attained success.
Works: Infant Christ; Jesus in Agony of
Death; Resurrection; Last Judgment; Faith,
Love, and Hope; Holy Family; Moses and
John.—Kuhn, Paul von D.; Springer, Gesch.,
312.
DESCHWANDEN, THEODOR, born at
Stanz, Switzerland, Feb. 20, 1826, died
there, Dec. 19, 1861. History painter, pupil
from 1840 of his cousin, Paul D., and
from 1845 at the Munich Academy; then
studied in Antwerp and Brussels, and later
in Paris after Murillo. In 1858 he visited
Upper Italy. Works: Struthan von Winkelried;
Arnold von Winkelried taking Farewell
of his Family (1860).—Allgem. d. Biogr.,
v. 70.
DES COUDRES, LUDWIG, born in Cassel
in 1820, died in Carlsruhe, Dec. 23,
1878. History and genre painter, pupil of
the Munich Academy in 1840, under Schnorr;
returned to Cassel, visited Italy in 1844-45,
studied then in Düsseldorf under Karl Sohn,
and was appointed, in 1854, professor at the
art-school in Carlsruhe. Works: Francesca
da Rimini (1850); Penitent Magdalen (1852);
Entombment (1855), Carlsruhe Gallery;
Adoration of Shepherds (1857), Grand Duke
of Baden; Repose in Egypt (1858); Holy
Women at the Cross (1863), St. Nicholas,
Hamburg; Iphigenia (1865), Grand Duke
of Baden; Christ Crucified and Magdalen
(1869); Christ blessing the Penitent Sinners,
Old Man Reading (1870); Domestic Life in
17th Century (1871); Under the Red Cross
(1872); Psyche and Pan; Happy Existence.—Brockhaus,
v. 80; Kunst-Chronik, xiv.
259.
DESGOFFE, ALEXANDRE, born in Paris,
March 2, 1805, died there, July 31, 1882.
Landscape painter, pupil of Ingres; has also
executed some religious subjects. Decorated
for city of Paris the baptismal chapels of S.
Nicolas du Chardonnet and of S. Pierre du
Gros-Caillou. Medals: 3d class, 1842; 2d
class, 1843, 1848; 1st class, 1845, 1857; L.
of Honour, 1857. Works: View near Arbonne
(1834), Argus guarding Io, Hercules
and the Nemean Lion, several views of Naples,
Roman Campagna, Valley of the Nymph
Egeria (1837-1842, painted in Italy); Lake
of Albano, Women Bathing, A Meadow, Meditation,
Evening, The Cyclops, Lyons Museum;
Narcissus at the Fountain, given to
town of Lemur; Madness of Orestes (1857),
Luxembourg Museum; Country at Hyères,
View of Provins, Resting, Playing Quoits
(1849); Martyrdom of St. Maurice, Woods
of Fleury, Environs of Naples (1859); Joseph
sold by his Brethren, Fauns Dancing, Sources
of the Durtin, Road at Montmorency (1861);
Resurrection of Christ, Souvenir of Naples,
Landscape (1863); Gulf of Naples (1867);
View near Antibes (1868); Souvenir of Naples,
Heath near Fontainebleau (1883).—Larousse;
Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 671.
DESGOFFE, BLAISE ALEXANDRE,
born in Paris, Jan. 17, 1830. Still-life painter,
pupil of Flandrin, nephew of Alexandre
D., and a most skilful imitator of near ob-
