DARGENT tenor of a School (1868); The Butterfly; A Push, lleturn from School (1885). DARGENT, &DOUARD YAN, born at St. Servais, Finisterre, iu 1824. Landscape painter ; has also decorated the Cathedral of Quimper, and furnished designs for news- papers and books. Studio in Paris. L. of Honour, 1877. Works: The Return, Wo- men Bathing (1851); By the Sea (1852); The Birdnesters, The Wagon (1853) ; The Last Kays (1855); Sea-Shore at Lokirech, St. Primel (1875); Banks of the Scorf, Cliff at Morgat (1876). DA1UO DA TREVISO, of Padua, latter I half of 15th century. Mentioned in accounts I of the Basilica di S. Antonio in 1446 as a ! pupil of Squarciune. His only existing pict- ! ure is a Virgin of Mercy in the gallery of I Bassano, a very poor production, false in I drawing, dull and dirty in colour. He de- j voted himself chiefly to the decoration of I house-fronts, and many examples of his in- Tent of Darius, Charles Lebrun, Louvre, Paris. Salvage at Guisseny (1857); St. Houardon (1859); Washerwomen of the Night (1861); Vapour, Evening on the Moors (1863); Ob- stinate Cow (1864); Death of the last Bre- ton Bard (1865) ; Souvenir of Childhood, Druidical Stoue (1866) ; Maurice Rock, Klo- arck in Vacation Time (1868) ; The Little Thumb (1869); Intemperance, Work (1870); ' Wheelwright of Laouic (1872); Wells of Santa, Path to the Ramiers at Bruzal (1873); St. Roch in Solitude, Kom-boud in Finis- terre (1874) ; Path near Telgruc, Cliffs at Goulliers near Cape Raz, St. Coreutin and . dustry of this kind exist in Treviso, Serra- vnlle, and Conegliano. C. & C., N. Italy, i. 350. DARIUS, FAMILY OF, Paolo Veronese, National Gallery, London ; canvas, H. 7 ft 8 in. x 15 ft. 6 in. The captive family, taken after the battle of Issus, presented to Alexander by one of the ministers of Darius, kneeling in centre ; to right, Alexander, in red armour, with Hephsestiou and Par- menio ; in background, a marble arcade, from the top of which many spectators are looking down. One of Veronese's grandest 373
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