El Ayn (The Fountain, 1876); Syria by the Sea (1876), James F. Joy, Detroit; Morning in the Tropics (1877), William E. Dodge, Jr., New York; The Monastery (1878), Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland, O.; Valley of Santa Marta (1879), Charles Parsons, St. Louis.
CHURCH, F. S., born at Grand Rapids,
Mich., in 1842. Animal painter; pupil of
the National Academy and of the Chicago
Academy. Paints in oil and water-colour,
and draws in black and white. Elected an
A.N.A. in 1885. Member of Society of
American Artists. Studio in New York.
Works in oil: Mad as March Hares;
Weirdness; Solo; Sea Princess; Back from
the Beach (1879); Muskrat's Nest (1880);
Foggy Day (1881); Willing Captive (1883).
Water-Colours: Hard Times; Chilly Day
(T. B. Clarke, New York); Foraging Party;
Elfin Tandem; Phantom; Ostrich Dance;
Awkward Squad; Pandora, King's Flamingoes
(1884); Peacocks in the Snow (1885).
CIBOT, (FRANÇOIS) BARTHÉLEMY
(MICHEL ÉDOUARD), born in Paris,
Feb. 11, 1799, died there, Jan. 10, 1877.
French school; genre painter, pupil of
Guérin, of Picot, and of École des Beaux
Arts. Painted also historical subjects,
landscapes, and portraits, and executed frescos
in the Church of St. Leu. Medals: 2d
class, 1836; 1st class, 1843, 1857, and 1863;
L. of Honour, 1863. Works: Judith, Cambray
Museum; Wounded Mother nursing
Child, The Sybarites (1827); Christ
tempted by Satan, Incident in Life of Fredegonda,
Louis XV. and Mlle. de Humières,
Amours of the Angels, Chain Gang (1836);
Indiscreet Visit, Diana painted by Jean
Goujon before Henri II., Little Conscripts,
Galileo at Notre Dame, Raphael and Perugino,
Young Married Woman, Regina Cœli
(1846); Nativity, Charity, Valley of Fontenay-aux-Roses,
Chestnut-Trees of Aulnay, A
Thicket (1855); Origin of the Sacred Heart,
St. Luke, Paris; Funeral of Godfrey de
Bouillon, Victory of Raymond Dupuy, Defence
of Beauvais, Versailles Museum; Park
at Orsay, Spring-Time, Summer, Environs
of Sceaux (1857); The Angel can Sleep, The
Angel Watches, Environs of Sceaux, First
Days of May (1859); Landscape at Aulnay,
Chartreux Convent at Sceaux (1861); Valley
of the Brèvre, Cliffs at Tréport, The
Sarthe (1863); Whirlpool near Seineport
(1864), Luxembourg Museum; Soisy-on-the-Ecole
(1865), Valley of Sceaux, View near
Beaulieu (1866); View at Rochefort (1867);
Gravel-Pit, Environs of Paris (1868); Woods
of Meudon, Chestnut-trees (1869); Vision of
Ezekiel, Environs of Sèvres (1874).—Larousse;
L'Art (1877), viii. 24.
CIENNI DA FIRENZE. See Cennini.
CIGALE, LA (The Grasshopper), Jules
Joseph Lefebvre, D. Catlin, St. Louis; canvas,
H. 8 ft. × 3 ft. Illustration of La Fontaine's
fable. Female figure, full length,
nude, standing, biting her fingers and pouting
as the first breeze of autumn whistles.—Art
Treasures of America, iii. 55.
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CIGNANI, CARLO, Count, born in Bologna,
May 15, 1628,
died at Forli, Sept.
6, 1719. Bolognese
school; of an ancient
Bolognese family;
most noted pupil of
Albani; afterward
studied works of Correggio
and of Annibale
Carracci. About
1658 he painted for
Cardinal Farnese, in the Palazzo Publico,
Bologna, the two frescos representing
the Entry of Paul III. into Bologna, and
Francis I. of France healing Lepers. His
most important work was the painting of
the cupola of the Cathedral at Forli,
which occupied him nearly twenty years,
the subject being the Assumption of the
Virgin. Works: Infant Christ and St.
John, Mater Dolorosa, Palazzo Corsini,
Rome; Charity, Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
do., Turin Gallery; Bacchus and
Erigone, Nero and the Body of his Mother,
Achilles and Ulysses, Magdalen, Madonna,
Cassel Gallery; Chastity of Joseph, Dresden
