ÆSCULAPIUS, OFFERING TO, Pierre Guérin, Louvre; canvas, H. 9 ft. 10 in. × 8 ft. 8 in. An old man, convalescent, supported by his two sons, offers thanks before the altar of Æsculapius for his restoration to health; his daughter, on her knees, shows joy at seeing the serpent eat of the fruit placed upon the altar. Salon, 1795.—Réveil, iii. 155.
AËTION (Eëtion), painter and sculptor,
time of Alexander the Great (?), classed by
Pliny among greatest Greek artists. Most
famous works, Marriage of Ninus and Semiramis
and Marriage of Alexander and Roxana.
The latter excited such admiration,
when exhibited at the
Olympic games, that Proxenidas,
one of the judges,
gave him his daughter in
marriage. Raphael reproduced
it in a drawing
(Louvre) from Lucian's
minute description (Herod.
4; Imag. 7), which Razzi (Il
Sodoma) also followed in his
fresco in the Farnesina.
Müller places Aëtion in the
age of Hadrian and the Antonines.—Müller
(Welcker),
211, N. 1; Pliny, xxxv. 32.
36; Cicero, Brut., 18.
AFRA, ST., MARTYRDOM
OF, Paolo Veronese,
S. Afra, Brescia; canvas,
signed. The saint about to suffer martyrdom,
with angels flying down with palms
and garlands; at foot of scaffold lie the
severed heads of SS. Faustinus and Jovitus,
that in front being a portrait of Veronese.
Damaged by restoring.—Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 39.
AGACHE, ALFRED PIERRE, born at
Lille, contemporary. Figure and portrait
painter, pupil of Pluchart and Colas. Medal:
3d class, 1885. Works: Fillette (1881);
The Fates (1882); Study (1883); Decorative
Figure (1884); Fortuna (1885).
AGAR, JACQUES D', born in Paris in
1642, died in Copenhagen, Nov. 16, 1715.
French school; a famous portrait painter
of his day, pupil of Vouet. After the revocation
of the Edict of Nantes (1682), being
a Protestant he was forced to leave France;
went to Denmark and became court painter
to Christian V., whose portrait he painted,
as well as that of the queen, and of himself
(1693), now in the Uffizi, Florence. After
1699, he went to England and painted
many portraits.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i.
114.
AGASSE, JACQUES LAURENT, born in
Geneva, Switzerland, died in London in
1846. Animal and landscape painter; studied
for some time in Paris, went to London
about 1800 and exhibited pictures for several
years at the Royal Academy. Some of
them, including six landscapes, were engraved.
Works: Portrait of a Horse (1801);
Rustic Repast; Race Ground; Market Day;
Fishmonger's Shop (1842).
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Martyrdom of St. Agatha, S. del Piombo, Pal. Pitti.
AGATHA, ST., MARTYRDOM OF, Sebastian del Piombo, Pitti, Florence; wood, H. 4 ft. 3 in. × 5 ft. 6 in.; signed, dated 1520. The saint, stripped to the waist, with two executioners about to apply their pincers to her breasts, at the order of Quinziano, Prefect of Sicily, who tortured her because she would not give up her faith; be-
