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VULCAN (1879); Return of Herd (1880), Luxem- bourg Museum ; Stream (1880) ; Relays of Dogs (1881) ; Field of the Fair, Breton Moor (1882) ; New Grass, In the Meadows (1883), Luxembourg Museum ; Summer Morning, Autumn Day (1884); Sale of Colts (1885) ; The Brook, De- parture of Colts (1886). Bellier, ii. Larousse. VULCAN, FORGE OF, Tintoretto, Pa- lazzo Ducale, Venice ; canvas. "A meagre and vulgar study of common models." - w Forge of Vulcan, Velasquez, Madrid Museum. Ridolfi, Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 297 Marav., ii. 216. By Velasquez, Madrid Museum ; canvas, H. 7 ft. 5 in. x 9 ft. 6 in. Apollo, partly draped, with a wreath on his head, from which light scintillates, enters the smithy of Works Vulcan to tell him of the infidelity of Venus ; | (1807) Vulcan and four half-nude cyclops, who are aiding him, cease their work to listen. Painted in Italy in 1629-31, after same mod- els as Coat of Joseph. Engraved by Glairon ; Enriquez. Etched by Alabern y Fatjo. Curtis, 21 ; Madrazo, 598. AAGEN, ADALBERT, born in Mu- nich, March 30, 1834. Landscape painter, son of Karl Waagen (1800 -73), and brother of the art historian Georg Friedrich Waagen ; pupil of Albert Zirnmer- n inn n, whom he followed to Milan ; returned to Munich in 1859, and settled at Berchtes- gaden in 1869. The finest of his landscapes are in the possession of the Russian Prince Apraxin ; many, also, arc in England and America. Other works : The Obersee ; Val Sassina ; The High Gull ; View of the Bren- ner Railway near Gossensass ; Ruin of Kldi- bach near Bozen ; Villa Carlotta on Lake Como, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Midler, 541. WACH, KARL WIL- HELM, born in Berlin, Sept. 11, 1787, died there, Nov. 25, 1845. History and portrait painter, pupil of Karl Kretzschmar and of Berlin Academy ; took part as an officer in the cam- paigns of 1813-15, then studied in Paris under Da- vid and Gros, and in 1817 went to Rome, where he aided in the revival of modern German art ; re- turned to Berlin in 1819, became member of and pro- fessor at the Academy, and established a school in Berlin, from which issued more than seventy scholars. Court painter in 1827 ; senator of the Academy in 1829 ; vice-director in 1840. Order of Red Eagle. Christ Berlin VULCAN AND VENUS. Vulcan. See Venus and Christ with SS. John and Matthew Portrait of Queen Louise (1811) ; Crucified (1815), Garnisonskirche, St. John Baptist (1816), Schloss Bellevue, ib. ; Male Head, Madonna En- throned (1826), Psyche surprised by Cupid, National Gallery, ib. ; Portrait of Countess Raczynski (1827), Head of the Virgin, Christ and Disciples (1828), Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Three Divine Virtues (1828-30), Werder 399