7 in. × 2 ft. 1 in. In a lofty, handsomely furnished apartment, with a piece of rich tapestry suspended from the ceiling and draped to one side, a group of four figures, in front of an arched window; a sick lady seated in a chair, her weeping daughter kneeling at her feet and holding one of her hands, a female attendant offering refreshment with a spoon, and a physician in purple silk robe, standing in foreground examining a urinal. Purchased for 30,000 florins by the Elector Palatine, who presented it to Prince Eugène; after his death passed to House of Savoy and placed in Turin Gallery, whence transferred by French to the Louvre; on restoration of pictures in 1815 the French government redeemed it by payment of 100,000 fr. Engraved by Fosseyeux; Claessens; Châtaigner.—Musée français; Filhol, vi. Pl. 367; Smith, i. 32; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise.
DROST, GERAERT, born about 1638,
died about 1690. Dutch school; pupil of
Rembrandt, and painted in his manner, although
somewhat exaggeratedly. Studied
also in Rome. Works: Decollation of John
Baptist, Amsterdam Museum; Noli me Tangere,
Cassel Gallery; Man in Brown Coat,
Old Man instructing Boy (?), Argus and
Mercury (?), Dresden Gallery; Argus and
Mercury, Vienna Museum.—Kramm, ii. 372;
Vosmaer, Rembrandt, (1868), 163.
DROUAIS, FRANÇOIS HUBERT, born
in Paris, Dec. 14, 1727, died there, Oct. 21,
1775. French school; portrait painter, son
and pupil of Hubert D.; continued his studies
under Nonnotte, Carle van Loo, Natoire
and Boucher, was received into the Academy
in 1758, and later became court painter.
He painted the royal family and many of the
famous men and women of his time. Works:
Portraits of Comte d'Artois, afterwards
Charles X., and of Marie-Adélaide Clotilde,
afterwards Queen of Sardinia (1763), Louvre;
portraits of Louis de Bourbon, Louis XVIII.,
Louis XV., Mme. Dubarry, Comte d'Artois,
Mme. Clotilde, and the sculptor Edmé Bouchardon,
Versailles Museum; portrait of
Couston, École des Beaux Arts; portrait of
Prince Dimitri Galitzin (1762, engraved by
J. Tardieu); portrait of Gen. Duhamel (engraved
by Moitte); portrait of Beaudieu de
Laval, dancing teacher of the royal family;
Mme. de Pompadour, Orleans Museum.—Ch.
Blanc, École française; Bellier de la
Chavignerie, i. 448; Gaz. des B. Arts (1881);
Villot, Cat. Louvre.
DROUAIS, HUBERT, born at La Roque
(Eure), May 5, 1699, died in Paris, Feb. 9,
1767. French school; portrait painter; first
instructed by an obscure artist in Rouen,
then by De Troy in Paris, and after the
latter's death was much employed by Jean
B. van Loo, Alexis Simon La Belle, Oudry,
and Nattier. He painted the Marquise de
Pompadour several times, and benefited by
her patronage. Works: Portrait of the
painter Christophe, École des Beaux Arts;
portrait of the sculptor Lorrain, Versailles.—Jal,
508; Lejeune, ii. 286.
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DROUAIS, GERMAIN JEAN, born in
Paris, Nov. 25,
1763, died in
Rome, Feb. 13,
1788. French
school; history
painter, son and
pupil of François
Hubert D.,
then studied
with Brenet, and
in the school of
David, where in 1784 he obtained the first
prize and aroused enthusiasm by his Christ
and the Canaanite Woman. Went to Rome
with David and studied the antique and
Raphael, but died suddenly after a few years.
Works: Christ and the Canaanite Woman,
Marius in Prison at Minturnæ, Louvre;
Wounded Gladiator, Rouen Museum; Philoctetus
in the Island of Lemnos, M. Goupil,
Paris; Departure of Tiberius Gracchus to
demand the Execution of the Agrarian Law;
portrait of Buffon, Narischkine sale (1883),
14,300 fr.; portrait of the Countess de Buffon,
do., 15,600 fr.—Ch. Blanc, École fran-
