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STRAEHUBER jointly with Vasari in the ducal palace. After his pictures 388 engravings were made. Works : Scourging of Christ, Ban- quet of the Gods, Vienna Museum ; Christ on the Cross, and several other scenes from the Passion, S. Annunziata, Florence ; Mar- tyrdom of the Thousand Saints, San Fi- renze, ib. ; Christ and the Money Changers, S. Spirito, ib.; Scenes in Life of Christ (frescos), Oratorio S. Clemente, ib.; others in churches and palaces in Rome and Na- ples. Immerzeel, iii. 118 ; Kramm, v. 1581 ; Nagler, xvii. 444. STRAEHUBER, ALEXANDER, born at Mondsee, Salzkammergut, Feb. 28, 1814, died in Munich, Dec. 31, 1883. History painter, pupil of Munich Academy and of Schnorr. Executed most of Kaulbach's cartoons in colours. Professor and honor- ai-y member of Munich Academy. Works : Two Scenes from Charlemagne's Life af- ter Schnorr's designs, Munich ; cartoons for glass windows, Glasgow and Ratisbon Ca- thedrals ; illustrations, which have done most to make him known. Miiller, 509 ; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 284. STRAET. See Stradanm. STRAFFORD, EARL OF, portrait, An- ton van Dyck, Blenheim Palace ; canvas, H. 3 ft. 4 in. x 4 f t. G in. Lord Strafford, hold- ing a letter in his hand and dictating an answer to his secretary, Sir Thomas Main- waring ; seen to knees. Waagen, Treas- ures, iii. 130. STRAFFORD GOING TO EXECU- TION, Paul Delarochc, Duke of Sutherland ; canvas, H. 8 ft. 8 in. x 10 ft. 3 in. Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, Minister of Charles I., while being taken from the Tower of London to the place of execution (1641) stops beneath the dungeon of Arch- bishop Laud to ask his blessing. He is represented kneeling before the prison wall, with halberdiers and pikemen on each side of him, looking up to the window above, through the iron grating of which the prel- ate is putting out his hands in the act of benediction. Painted in 1835 ; Salon, 1837. San Donato sale, in Paris (1870), 30,000 francs. STRASSGSCHWANDTNER, ANTON, born in Vienna in 1827, died there, March 5, 1881. Genre and animal painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Steinfeld and Kupelwieser. First painted landscapes, then riding and hunting pictures, and mil- itary genre. Works : Plundering Cossacks (1847), Vienna Museum ; Uhlan Outpost (1847), Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Cavalry Skir- mish (1861) ; Stone Cart (1870) ; Wallen- stein's Cavalry in Ambush (1874). Wurz- bach, xxxix. 279. STRASZYNSKI, LEONHARD DE, born at Tokarowka, near Kiev ; contempo- rary. History painter, pupil of Markow. Works : King Stanislaus in Baccianelli's Studio (1859) ; Wallenstein in Bohemia (1862) ; Murder of Bishop of Liege (1863). STRATONICE, Dominique Ingres, Due d'Aumale, Chantilly ; canvas. Antiochus Soter, son of Seleucus Nicator, King of Syria, having fallen seriously ill, Erasistra- tus, the King's physician, suspecting the cause, orders the ladies of the palace to come in one by one, and discovers by the beating of his patient's heart that he is in love with his beautiful step-mother, Queen Stratonice. The King, rather than lose his son, broke the bonds which bound him to Stratonice and permitted Antiochus to mar- ry her. In the picture, Erasistratus is stand- ing beside the bed of Antiochus, with his left hand upon his patient's heart, the other slightly raised in astonishment as he gazes at Stratonice, standing at left with her face averted. King Seleucus, kneeling beside his son's couch, with his head buried in the drapery, sees nothing of the drama before him. Ordered in 1834 by Due d'OrlcSans ; finished in Rome in 1840 ; acquired in 1853 by Prince Demidoff for 63,000 francs ; sold to Due d'Aumale. Replica (1860), with changes, ComtesseDuchfitel ; another (1866), with changes, Montpellier Museum, bought from Mme. Ingres for 20,000 francs. Orig- inal sketch, Louvre, Paris. Engraved by 334