DÜCKER, EUGEN (GUSTAV), born at Arensberg, on the Isle of Oesel, Livonia, Feb. 10, 1841. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy; obtained in 1862 the great gold medal, travelled through Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, and Italy, and settled in Düsseldorf, where, in 1872, he was appointed professor at the Academy. Works: Wood near Düsseldorf, Mill, Strand on Baltic Sea, View on Isle of Rügen, Königsberg Museum; After the Rain, Swamp, Dry River-Bed, Storm, St. Petersburg Academy; Evening Twilight in Rügen, National Gallery, Berlin.—Brockhaus, v. 612; Müller, 146.
DUCORNET, LOUIS CÉSAR JOSEPH,
born at Lille, Jan. 10, 1806, died in Paris,
April 27, 1856. Born without arms, like
Felu. History and portrait painter, pupil
of Guillon-Lethière and Gérard. In spite
of his deformity he painted creditable pictures.
Medals: 2d class, 1820; 1st class,
1822. Works: Slave-Merchant (1833), Arras
Museum; Marguerite consulting a Flower
(1834); Apparition of Christ to Magdalen
(1835); Death of Mary Magdalen (1840), St.
André, Lille; Repose in Egypt (1841);
Christ in the Sepulchre (1843); St. Denis
preaching to Gauls (1846), St. Louis de l'Ile,
Paris; Vision of St. Philomela (1846); Nest
of Tomtits (1848), Portrait of Gen. Régner,
(1849), Lille Museum; Gloria in Excelsis
(1850), Church of Auxy-le-Château; Fair
Edith finding Body of Harold (1855), Compiègne;
Parting of Hector and Andromache,
St. Louis administering Justice, Lille Museum.—Bellier
de la Chavignerie, i. 467;
Larousse.
DUCQ, JAN LE, born at The Hague in
1636 or 1638, died there in 1695. Dutch
school; animal and landscape painter, supposed
pupil of Paul Potter; joined painters'
guild at Hague in 1658, and painted for it a
Shepherdess and Cows; also (1662) a Landscape
with Herd and Herdsmen is in the
Cassel Gallery.—Westrheene, Life of Paul
Potter, 123.
DUCQ, JOSEPHUS FRANCISCUS, born
at Ledeghem, West Flanders, Sept. 10,
1762, died in Bruges, April 9, 1829. Flemish
school; history and genre painter, pupil
of Bruges Academy and of Suvée in Paris,
where he obtained the first prize in 1792,
and another later; went in 1807 to Rome,
six years later returned to Paris, and in
1815 became professor at Bruges Academy,
afterwards its director; court painter, member
of Antwerp and Ghent Academies; Order
of Lion. Works: Night and Daybreak,
Meleager entreated by his Allies to save
Calydon (1804); Devotion of a Scythian
(1810); Antonello da Messina in Jan van
Eyck's Studio (1820); Angelica and Medoro
(1820); Scipio receiving Envoys of Antiochus;
Esther and Ahasuerus; School-*master
after Bion's Idyl; Engraver Meulemeester
at the Vatican, Artist's Portrait;
Birth of Venus, Brussels Museum; William
I. of Netherlands, Van Gierdergom, Bruges
Academy.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, vi. 238;
Immerzeel, i. 201.
DUCREUX, JOSEPH, born at Nancy,
1737, died on the road from St. Denis to
Paris, July 24, 1802. French school; portrait
painter, pupil of De Latour, and intimate
friend of Greuze; sent to Vienna in
1769 to paint Marie Antoinette, to whom he
became court painter. Member of Vienna
and Paris Academies.
Excelled
in pastel. Works:
Portraits of Joseph
II. and of Maria Theresa, copies of
pictures by other artists, miniatures.—Ch.
Blanc, École française; Bellier de la Chavignerie,
i. 468.
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DUEL AFTER THE MASQUERADE (Duel au sortir d'un Bal masqué), Gérôme, William T. Walters, Baltimore; canvas, H. 1 ft. 3 in. × 1 ft. 9 in. A quarrel has taken place at a ball in Paris, and the masquers, without waiting to change their costumes, have adjourned at dawn to the Bois de Bologne to fight under the trees. It is winter, and the ground is covered with new-fallen snow. Pierrot has received a death-wound
