and best preserved works. Painted for Pisani family, of whom the principal figures are portraits, and preserved in Palazzo Pisani, Venice, until purchased for National Gallery in 1857. Richter thinks the kneeling girls are the artist's daughters, and the man with the long gray beard his brother Benedetto.—Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 554; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 60; Richter, Ital. Art in National Gallery, 74.
DARIUS, TENT OF, Charles Lebrun,
Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 9 ft. 9 in. × 14 ft.
10 in. Alexander, accompanied by Hephæstion,
visits in their tent the family of Darius,
captured at the battle of Issus. Sisygambia,
mother of Darius, prostrates herself before
Hephæstion, mistaking him for Alexander.
Recognizing her error, she attempted an
apology, when the King interrupted her, saying,
"You are not deceived. He is another
Alexander." The royal captives are attended
by women, priests, and eunuchs. Engraved
by G. Edelinck, Devilliers, G. Audran.—Landon,
Musée, ii. Pl. 57; Filhol, i. Pl. 55.
DARLEY, FELIX O. C., born in Philadelphia,
Pa., June 23, 1822. Genre painter,
self-taught. Works almost exclusively in
black and white; well known as an illustrator;
has travelled and sketched in
Europe. Elected an N.A. in 1852. Works:
First Blow for Liberty; Foraging in Virginia;
Emigrants attacked by Indians (painted for
Prince Napoleon); Scene in the Streets of
Rome; Cavalry Charge at Fredericksburg—Virginia
(1867); March to the Sea; Sheepfold;
Mount Desert; A Cold Snack; Puritans
surprised by Indians.—Tuckerman,
471.
DAUBAN, JULES JOSEPH, born in
Paris, May 31,1822. History painter, pupil
of Auguste Debay; director of School of
Fine Arts at Angers. Has also decorated
churches and other buildings. Medal, 1864;
L. of Honour, 1868. Works: Louis XI.
making Guillaume de Cérizay Mayor of Anjou
(1861); Trappists receiving a Stranger
(1864), Luxembourg Museum; Trappists
giving each other the Kiss of Peace before
Communion (1865), Angers Museum; Death
of a Trappist (1867); Mme. Roland going to
the Revolutionary Tribunal (1869); Fra
Angelico da Fiesole (1873); Resurrection of
Lazarus, Church of St. Bernard, Paris.
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DAUBIGNY, CHARLES FRANÇOIS,
born in Paris,
Feb. 15, 1817,
died there, Feb.
20, 1878. Landscape
painter,
son and pupil of
Edmé François
D. (1789-1843),
landscape painter;
visited Italy,
and returning in
1836, studied under Delaroche. Exhibited
at nearly every Salon after 1838. Medals:
2d class, 1848; 1st class, 1853; 3d class,
1855; 1st class, 1857, 1859, and 1869; L.
of Honour, 1859, Officer, 1874. An excellent
landscape painter, especially of river
scenes, which he painted from a floating
studio. Left many etchings. Works: The
Seine at Bezons, St. Jerome in the Desert
(1840); Harvest (1852); Banks of the Seine
(1852), Nantes Museum; Pool of Gylien
(1853); Sluice in Valley of Optevoz (1855),
Luxembourg Museum; Springtime (1857);
Banks of the Oise (1861); The Vintage
(1863), Luxembourg Museum; Windmills
at Dordrecht (1872); Fields in June (1873);
House of Mother Bazot at Valmandois (1874);
Fruit-Garden in Normandy (1875); Moon-*rise,
View of Dieppe (1877). Works in
United States: Morning, Miss C. L. Wolfe,
New York; Morning—Landscape, A. Belmont,
New York; Landscape, T. H. Stebbins,
New York; Landscape, M. Graham,
New York; Spring Lake, Shady Pool, Before
the Storm, Coast of Normandy, Sunset,
B. Wall, Providence; Landscape, T. Wigglesworth,
Boston; Landscape, H. P. Kidder,
Boston; River Scene, G. Hoadly, Cincinnati;
Landscape—Morning, S. A. Coale,
St. Louis; Landscape, Charles Parson, ib.;
Landscape, View on the Seine, C. H. Wolff,
