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  • pil of Copenhagen Academy; visited Paris

in 1880, and travelled for two years in Germany. Works: Dilettante on the Violoncello (1879); Cake-Woman, Old Bachelor Shopping (1880); Morning in Address-Agency's Yard (1881); Confirmation (1882); Dirty Apprentice, Guard mounting at Amalienborg (1883).—Sigurd Müller, 156.


HENNINGSEN, FRANTS, born in Copenhagen, June 22, 1850. Genre and portrait painter, brother of preceding, pupil of Copenhagen Academy, and in Paris of Bonnat; visited Spain, where, especially in Madrid in 1878, he studied popular types. Works: On a Pedestrian Trip (1877); Pond in Zealand (1878); Ploughing in October (1880); Hay Harvest, Huntsman with Horse and Dog, On the Highway (1881); The Old Story (1882); Burial, In Front of a Smithy (1883).—Sigurd Müller, 160.


HENRI IV., ENTRY OF, François Gérard, Versailles Museum; canvas, H. 16 ft. 9 in. × 31 ft. 5 in.; signed. In centre, Luillier, provost of the merchants of Paris, advances at the head of a group of municipal officers to present the keys of the city to the king, near whom are, on left, Crillon, De Retz, Montmorency, and Brissac, and on right, Biron, Sully bearing the king's casque, and Bellegarde, all on horseback; farther to right, Maréchal de Matignon, sword in hand; in a balcony, Gabrielle d'Estrées. Collection of Charles X., Salon, 1817. Repetition, reduced, in Louvre. Engraved by Toschi.—Larousse, ix. 186.

By Rubens, Uffizi, Florence; canvas, figures more than life-size. The king, crowned with laurel, and mounted on a Roman chariot, is making a triumphal entry into Paris after the Battle of Ivry. In this picture Rubens has availed himself of several parts of Mantegna's Triumph of Cæsar at Hampton Court. Brought from Palazzo Pitti in 1773. Sketch in Earl Darnley's Collection, Cobham Hall.—Waagen, Treasures, iii. 23; Cat. Louvre, Rubens, 231.


HENRI IV. AT IVRY, Rubens, Uffizi, Florence; canvas, figures more than life-size. The king, mounted, in the centre of the composition, followed by many knights, who are engaged with the enemy. This and the preceding picture were painted about 1630 by order of Maria de' Medici, as part of a series illustrative of the history of Henri IV., for her palace of the Luxembourg. Transported from Palazzo Pitti in 1773.—Cat. Louvre, Rubens, 231.


Henry IV. and the Spanish Ambassador, Dominiue Ingres, Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Paris.

HENRI IV. AND THE SPANISH AMBASSADOR, Richard Parkes Bonington, Sir Richard Wallace, Hertford House, London; canvas, H. 1 ft. 4 in. × 1 ft. 7 in. The King, on all fours, romping with his three children, one of whom is astride his back, turns his head to greet the Spanish ambassador, who enters at right through a door from which the portière is drawn back by a page; in background, the Queen, seated. San Donato sale (1870), £3,320.

By Dominique Ingres, Baron Alphonse