negro with an ape and a dog. This picture, celebrated in its time in verse and prose, was painted for the King of Spain; but he finding the price too high, Guido sold it to M. de La Forcade for Maria de' Médici; the queen being obliged to leave Paris, M. Forcade sold it to Louis Phélipeaux, Seigneur de La Villière, from whom it passed through several other hands to the Musée Napoléon. Engraved by Desplaces.—Landon, Musée, xi. Pl. 50.
HELENA, painter, daughter of Timon of
Egypt, 4th century B.C. The mosaic of the
Battle of Issus, at Naples, is perhaps a reproduction
of her only recorded work.—Ptolem.
Hephaest. in Phot. Bibl., p. 482
(ed. Hoeschel).
HELENA, ST., VISION OF, Paolo Veronese,
National Gallery, London; canvas, H.
6 ft. 5 in. × 3 ft. 9 in. The Saint, in sleep
or revery, reclines on a marble window-seat,
resting her head upon her right hand;
through the open window are seen two
cherubim bearing a cross. The design appears
to be after an engraving by Marc Antonio,
supposed to be after a drawing by
Raphael. Etched by E. W. Sherborn in
Art Journal (1884), 257.—Nat. Gal. Cat.;
Bartsch, xiv. 443; Richter, 74.
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Vision of St. Helena, Paolo Veronese, Vatican, Rome.
By Paolo Veronese, Vatican, Rome. Seated, asleep, wearing the imperial crown, and clad in a rich brocaded Venetian costume, her head resting upon her left hand; at right, a little angel standing holds a Greek cross. Acquired from Galleria Sacchetti by Benedict XIV., who placed it in the Capitol Museum, whence removed to Vatican. Engraved by Gius. Craffonara.—Larousse, ix. 19; Vaticano descritto, vi. Pl. 76.
HELFFT, JULIUS, born in Berlin, April
6, 1818. Landscape and architecture painter,
pupil of Berlin Academy and of W. Schirmer;
went in 1843 to Italy, painted there
a series of views around Florence for King
Frederick William IV., then visited Rome,
Naples, and Sicily, and returned in 1847,
when he was appointed professor in Berlin
Academy. Works: Sicilian Cloister Yard
(1847), Doge's Palace—Venice (1856), National
Gallery, Berlin; Canal Grande in Venice;
San Miniato near Florence.—Müller,
247.
HELIODORUS, painter, of Athens, date
unknown. Perhaps identical with sculptor
of same name mentioned by Pliny (xxxvi. 4
[91]), some of whose statues were in the
Temple of Jupiter in the Portico of Octavia,
Rome.—Pausan., 1, 37, 1.
HELIODORUS, EXPULSION OF, Raphael,
Stanza d'Eliodoro, Vatican; fresco. Heliodorus,
treasurer of the Syrian king, attempting
to plunder the Temple at Jerusalem,
is driven out by two avenging angels
(2 Maccabees, ii. 25). In background the
High Priest Onias praying before the tabernacle;
in foreground, right, the answer to
the prayer—Heliodorus overthrown, and his
soldiers put to flight by two angels with
scourges and a celestial horseman; at left,
the assembled people and Julius II. in his
chair of state. The bearer in front is Marc
Antonio Raimondi, and another farther back
is supposed to be Giulio Romano. Typical
of the victory of the Papacy over its enemies,
especially Louis XII. of France. Painted in
