landscape, and portrait painter, pupil of Marseilles Academy, then in Paris of Cogniet. Many of hispictures are in the public galleries of Marseilles and other French cities. Director of Marseilles Academy since 1869. Medals: 3d class, 1861 and 1863. Works: Environs of Marseilles (1841); Incident of the Massacre of the Innocents (1842); Christian Captives (1844); Descent from the Cross (1845); Women at the Spring (1846); Mater Dolorosa (1852); Scene from Dante's Purgatory; Plague in Marseilles (1860); St. Bernard preaching the Crusade (1864); Condé on Battlefield of Rocroy; Paul in Athens; Modesty (1874); Diogenes (1882).—Bellier, ii. 7; Müller, 347.
MAGDALEN, Pompeo Battoni,
Dresden Gallery; canvas, H. 4 ft. ×
6 ft. 1 in. Reclining in the obscurity
of a cave, the mouth of which is seen
at right; she leans upon her elbows,
her hands clasped, and reads from a
book which rests upon a skull at her
left side; drapery blue, leaving bare
her feet, arms, and right shoulder.
A favourite picture, often copied. Engraved
by J. S. Bach; Gius. Camerata;
C. Krueger.—Hübner, Dresden
Gal., i. 3.
By Annibale Carracci, Louvre; canvas, H. 4 ft. 10 in. × 3 ft. 4 in. Standing at entrance to a grotto, looking toward a cross at right; below the cross, an open book on a rock. Collection of Louis XVIII.; acquired in 1821 from M. Scitivaux.—Villot, Cat. Louvre.
By Claude Lorrain, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 5 ft. 3 in. × 7 ft. 8 in. Kneeling in a beautiful valley, in a mountainous and broken country; dawn effect.—Madrazo.
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Magdalen, Correggio, Dresden Gallery.
By Correggio, Dresden Gallery; copper, H. 1 ft. × 1 ft. 3 in. Reclining at the mouth of a cave under dark foliage; she supports her head on one hand, and with the other holds the book from which she is reading on the ground. Clad in a blue garment, leaving feet and shoulders bare. Early history unknown; painted probably about 1530-33. Baldinucci describes a similar work in collection of Cavaliere Niccolò de Gaddi, Florence, about 1600, which was copied by Cristofano Allori. In 18th century it was kept in the so-called golden chamber of the Castle of Modena, set in a silver frame ornamented with precious stones, enclosed in a case opened only on state occasions. Sold to Augustus III., Elector of Saxony, in 1745-46, when it was valued at 27,000 scudi. Stolen in 1788 from Dresden Gallery by one Wogaz, but recovered from his house. Many copies; one, bought from Vallati, Rome, which passed as the original in Lord Ward's Gallery, London; another by C. Allori in the Uffizi. Engraved by Daullé; Basan; Contius; Niquet; Longhi (1809); Böttcher; Bartolozzi; Stadler.—Meyer, Correggio, 336, 487; Gal. roy. de Dresde, i. Pl. 4; Landon, Œuvres, viii. Pl. 17; Klas. der Malerei, i, Pl. 48; Hübner, Dresden Gal. i. 8.
By Carlo Dolci, Uffizi, Florence; canvas, life-size. Bust of a beautiful woman, with her hair falling over her shoulders, clad in silk embroidered with silver and gold, and wearing pearls and diamonds; in her hand an ointment vase.—Wicar, iii. Part 29; Lasinio, i. Pl. 59; Soc. Ed. and Paris, Gal. di Firenze, 148; Baldinucci, xviii. 111.
By Domenichino, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; canvas, H. 2 ft. 11 in. × 2 ft. 6 in. Half-
