Works: Hamlet of Chêne-Rogneux, Banks of the Indre (1875); September Morning near Brignoles, Environs of Loches (1876); Pond of Chêne-Percé, The Seine at the Pond-National, Bercy (1877); Autumn Morning in Provence (1879); Coast of Saint-Waast-la-Hongue, Evening in Provence (1880); Evening in the Fields, On the Cliff (1881); In Provence, Port of Commerce at Toulon (1882); Transport-Ship leaving Toulon (1883), Luxembourg Museum; Cemetery on Coast of Mediterranean (1883); Landing Place for Oranges at Toulon, Village of Six-*fours (1884); Embarking of Troops at Toulon; The Grande Route from Toulon to La Seyne (1885); On the Coast of Provence (1886).—Bellier, ii. 115.
MONTFOORT, ANTHONIS VAN, called
Van Blockland, born at Montfoort about
1532-34, died at Utrecht in 1583. Dutch
school; history and portrait painter, pupil in
Antwerp of Frans Floris, whose style he imitated.
Married at the age of nineteen, and
settled at Delft. In 1572 he went to Italy
and studied works of the great masters; on
his return settled in Utrecht. His treatment
of the nude is praiseworthy. His religious
subjects are distinguished for simplicity of
feeling. Works: Diana and Actæon (1573),
Vienna Museum; Adoration of Shepherds,
Berlin Museum.—Immerzeel, ii. 237;
Kramm, iv. 1144; Nagler, Mon., i. 62.
MONTFORT, ANTOINE ALPHONSE,
born in Paris, April 3, 1802. Genre and
landscape painter, pupil of Horace Vernet,
of Gros, and the École des Beaux Arts.
Medals: 3d class, 1837, 1863. Works: Pirates
in Greek Archipelago (1837); View
of Nazareth (1844); Return to the Tribe,
Arab Women around Cistern, Village of
Nazareth—Syria (1855); Arab Camp (1859);
Start for Falcon Chase (1863); Syrian Farrier,
Street of Latakia (1876); Arab Camp
in the Desert (1878); Enrolment in Syria,
1838 (1881).—Bellier, ii. 115.
MONVEL, LOUIS MAURICE BOUTET
DE, born at Orleans, France; contemporary.
Figure painter, pupil of Cabanel, Jules
Lefebvre, Boulanger, and Carolus-Duran.
Medals: 3d class, 1878; 2d class, 1880.
Works: Marguerite and Martha at Church
(1874), Orléans Museum; Toilet of Truth
(1877); Good Samaritan (1878); Lesson before
the Sabbath, On the High Plateaus in
Algeria (1880); Return from Market in Kabylia
(1882); On the Strand (1885); Sun-*effect
in Algeria (1886).
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MONVOISIN, RAYMOND AUGUSTE
QUINSAC, born at Bordeaux, Aug. 3, 1794,
died at Boulogne-sur-Seine, April 1, 1870.
History painter, pupil of Guérin; won the
grand prix de Rome in 1822. He founded
a school of art in Valparaiso, where he lived
sixteen years. Medals: 1st class, 1831,
1837. He married Domenica Festa (born
1805, in Rome), a skilful miniature painter.
Works: Christ healing the Possessed (1819),
Bordeaux Museum; Orestes and Pylades
(1822); River Scamander (1824); Telemachus
and Eucharis (1827); Shipwreck (1827);
Birth of the Virgin (1830), Notre Dame de
Lorette; Exaltation of Sixtus V. (1831),
Luxembourg Museum; Ali-Pasha and Vasiliki,
Blanche de Beaulieu, Louis XIV. and
Mlle. de la Vallière (1833); Jeanne La Folle
(1834), Amiens Museum; Death of Charles
IX. (1835), Montpellier Museum; Battle of
Denain (1837); Session of the 9th Thermidor
(1838); Christ on the Cross, Death of
the Poet Gilbert (1839), Nancy Museum;
Christ surrounded by Angels; Paraguayan
Man and Wife; Cacique of the Araucanians;
Captive Chilian Woman among Araucanian
Indians (1859); Women Bathing; The Cordilleras,
Resignation (1863); Travelling in
the Cordilleras, Souvenir of the Cordilleras
(1864); Creation of Man; John Huss; Joan
of Arc at the Fountain; Joan of Arc wounded;
Joan of Arc at the Stake; Christ appearing
to his Apostles; Groups of Spirits
receiving Spiritual Communications; Portraits
of five kings of France, of Conneta-
