View on Klopein Lake (1854); Castle Feistritz (1856); The Gross Glockner (1857); Album of Carinthia (30); Panorama of the Gross Glockner (9), Alpenverein, Vienna.—Wurzbach, xxii. 35.
PERNIA, portrait, Velasquez, Madrid Museum;
canvas, H. 6 ft. 6 in. × 4 ft. Commonly
called Portrait of Barbaroja or Barbarossa,
but now identified as Pernia, an
actor of the time of Philip IV. A man in Venetian
costume, standing, looking to right;
in right hand a sword, in left the scabbard.
Unfinished. Latest manner. Engraved by
L. Croutelle. Etched by F. Goya; C. Alabern.—Curtis,
31; Madrazo, 627.
PERNOT, ALEXANDRE FRANÇOIS,
born at Vassy (Haute-Marne), Feb. 15, 1793,
died there, Nov. 3, 1865. Landscape painter,
pupil of Hersent and Victor Bertin. Between
1818 and 1828 he made many sketches
for oil and water-colour pictures in Scotland,
Germany, Switzerland, and France. Medals:
2d class, 1822; 1st class, 1839; Austrian
grand gold medal, 1846; L. of Honour,
1846. Works: Ditches of Vincennes
in 1815 (1822), Angers Museum; William
Tell's Chapel; Marius at Carthage; Castle
of Bayard; Valley of Domremy; Abbotsford;
Edinburgh; Holyrood; Precipices
of Bozouls (1829); View of Part of Loch
Lomond (1833); Ruined Castle on the Rhine,
Ruins of the Convent of Thusenbach (1834);
Loch Leven Castle, Bridge of Clammecy
(1835); Monument to Turenne at Sasbach
(1836), Versailles Museum; View of Conches,
Langres Museum; View of Strasburg Cathedral
(1836), Rheims Museum; Burning
of Chartres Cathedral in 1836, Chartres Museum;
View of Château de Plessis-les-Tours
(1851), Tours Museum; View of Nancy,
Dijon Museum.—Bellier, ii. 236; Larousse;
Cotta, Kunstblatt (1846), 175.
PEROFF, BASIL, born at Tobolsk, Siberia,
Dec, 1833. A natural son of Baron
Krüdener, he was debarred by Russian law
from taking his father's name, and was
called Peroff (Russian "pero," pen) for his
early proficiency in writing. Genre painter,
pupil in drawing and painting of Stoupin
at Arsamass, whence he went to Moscow
and studied three years in the Academy
under Vasilieff. He received medals at St.
Petersburg for his Boy's Head (1856) and
his Village Magistrate, First Uniform, and
Village Church (1861), and finally won the
gold medal and was sent to Paris to study.
About 1865 he settled permanently in Moscow,
and devoted himself to painting Russian
life. Member of and professor in the
Moscow Academy. Works: Easter Procession
(1861); En Route for the Troïski (1862);
The Funeral (1865); New Governess, Drawing
Master (1866); Last Wine Shop (1868);
Students and the Monk (1871); Portraits of
Turgenieff, Stepanoff, Pissemski, Pogodin,
the brothers Rubinstein, Maïkoff, Dahl, and
others (1870-72); Bazaroff's Grave (1874,
from Turgenieff's "Pères et Enfants"). He
has not exhibited since 1876, but he has
painted historical, religious, and allegorical
works, such as Czarevitch Ivan and the
Grey Wolf; The False Demetrius and the
Monk Pymen; Descent from the Cross;
Garden of Gethsemane; The Snow Maiden.—Mag.
of Art (1886), 315.
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PERRAULT, LÉON BAZILE, born at
Poitiers; contemporary. Genre painter,
pupil of Picot and Bouguereau. Medals:
1864; 2d class, 1876. Works: Feeding
Chickens; The Window, Coquetry (1868);
Young Bather surprised by Tide, Rebellious
Love, Rest (1874); Women Bathing; Charity;
John the Baptist; The Rustic Oracle
(1876); Christ in the Tomb (1877), Pau
Museum; Far from Home, Natural Mirror
(1878); Moses Exposed on the Nile, Bettina
(1879); Victorious Love, Love Asleep
(1880); Meditation (1881); Hymenia's Triumph
(1882); Marsanina, Sleep (1883); Legal
Marriage
(1884); Mother
and Child (1884),
Knoedler & Co.,
New York; Nymph teasing Cupid, Artist's
Children (1886); My Pussy, C. S. Smith,
New York; Education of Azor, D. W. Pow-
