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and Adonis (2), Birth of Adonis, Cephalus and Procris, Diana, Semiramis, Dorinda Wounded, Lot and his Daughters, Holy Family, and others, Dresden Museum; Christ crowned with Thorns, Madonna, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Prodigal Son, Return of Prodigal, St. John in the Desert, Soldier counting Money, Museum, Vienna; Saint and Angel, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Lot and his Daughters, Madonna, Raising of Lazarus, Salome receiving Head of John Baptist, Vision of St. Jerome, SS. Benedict and Francis of Assisi, Madonna with Patron Saints of Modena, Hersilia separating Romulus and Tatius, Circe, St. Cecilia, John Baptist, Portrait of Guercino, Louvre, Paris; St. Peter in Prison, Susanna at the Bath, St. Augustin, Magdalen, Allegory on Painting, Diana, Disinterested Love, Madrid Museum; Angels weeping over Dead Christ, National Gallery, London; Beatrice Cenci, Bridgewater House, ib.; St. Cecilia, Dulwich Gallery; Assumption, Martyrdom of St. Catherine, St. Jerome, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Calvi, Life (Bologna, 1808); Malvasia, ii. 255; Lanzi, iii. 108; Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise; Dohme, 2iii.; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 1.


GUÉRIN, (JEAN BAPTISTE) PAULIN, born in Toulon, March 25, 1783, died in Paris, Jan. 19, 1855. French school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Vincent. His pictures are heavy in style, though good in colour. Medal in 1817; L. of Honour, 1822; professor, same year. Works: Cain after Murder of Abel (1812); Christ Dead (1817), Catholic Church in Baltimore; Christ on the Virgin's Knees (1819); Anchises and Venus (1822); Ulysses resisting the Attacks of Poseidon (1824), Rennes Museum; Adam and Eve expelled from Paradise (1827); Holy Family (1829), Toulon Cathedral; Death of Christ, Church of Noailles; Chevalier Rose during the Plague at Marseilles (1834); St. Catherine (1838), St. Roch, Paris; Revery, Conversion of St. Augustine (1844); Ann of Austria, Regent, Portraits of Marshals Rochefort, Roquelaure, and Duke de Châtillon, Versailles Museum.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 714.


GUÉRIN, JEAN MICHEL PROSPER, born in Paris, March 23, 1838. History and portrait painter, pupil of H. Flandrin, Dumas, and Cornu. Medal, 1867. Works: Before the Feast of Bacchus (1865); Hagar, The Refuge (1867); Pietà (1868); St. Cecilia dying hears a Celestial Concert (1869); The Danaides (1876); The Golden Age (1877); St. Mary of Egypt (1878); Souvenir of Carnival (1879); Love of Thetis and Peleus (1880); Ugolino and his Children (1882); St. Agnes (1885).



GUÉRIN, PIERRE NARCISSE, Baron, born in Paris, May 13, 1774, died in Rome, July 16, 1833. French school; genre painter, pupil of Regnault; became one of the most successful painters of his day, and had among his pupils Géricault, Sigalon, Delacroix, and Ary Scheffer. His pictures, though masterly in technique, and correct in drawing, are treated in a somewhat cold and stiff style. Guérin won the grand prix de Rome in 1797. L. of Honour, 1803; Order of St. Michael, 1819; was made Member of Institute same year; appointed director of the French Academy in Rome, 1822; Baron, 1829; Officer of the L. of Honour, 1832. Works: Offering to Æsculapius (1795), Louvre, Paris; Murder of Geta, Coriolanus and the Body of Brutus (1796); Death of Cato (1797); Return of Marcus Sextus (1799), Louvre; Orpheus weeping over the Grave of Eurydice (1801); Phædra and Hippolytus (1802), Louvre; Replica in Bordeaux Museum; Napoleon pardoning the Rebels

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