- lery, Berlin; On Furlough (1884). Works
in United States: Head of Girl, S. A. Coale, St. Louis; Prize-Horse, E. D. Morgan, New York; Italian Singing Beggars, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Tourists in Tyrol, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York; The New Brother, Samuel Hawk Collection, New York. At Narischkine sale (1883) The Dance sold for 48,000 fr.—Brockhaus, iv. 945; Müller, 12; Meyer, Con. Lex., xvii. 555; Graph. K., iv. 17; Illustr. Zeitg. (1873), ii. 361; (1875), ii. 255; (1882), ii. 497; N. illustr. Zeitg. (1880), i. 6; (1883), i. 74; Land und Meer (1874), i. 36, 274; Kunst-Chronik, vi. 6; xviii. 403; xix. 317, Pecht, ii. 27; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vii. 100, 116; 465; xvi. 50; xvii. 344; xviii. 403; xix. 130; viii. (Mittheilungen, i. 58); xii. (Mitth., v. 52).
DEGER, ERNST, born at Bockenem, Hanover,
April 15, 1809, died at Düsseldorf, Jan.
27, 1885. History painter, pupil in 1828
of the Berlin Academy under Wach, and in
1829 of the Düsseldorf Academy under
Schadow. In Rome in 1837-41 he prepared
himself to paint the frescos in the St. Apollinaris
chapel at Remagen, which he executed
conjointly with Ittenbach, and Andreas and
Karl Müller, in 1843-51. He then decorated
the chapel at Castle Stolzenfels, near Coblentz,
for Frederick William IV. of Prussia,
and in 1869 became professor at the Düsseldorf
Academy, Member of Berlin and Munich
Academies. Works: Pietà (1830); Bearing
the Cross (1832); Madonna (1833); Annunciation
(1834); Resurrection (1835); Virgin
adoring Christ (1836); Madonna Enthroned
(1837), St. Andrew's chapel, Düsseldorf; Several
other Madonnas, Redeemer with Mary
and John Baptist, and Seven Scenes from
Life of Christ (1841-51), St. Apollinaris
chapel, Remagen; St. Catherine (1842); St.
Magdalen (1843); St. Joseph with Infant
Christ (1844); Holy Virgin, Resurrection,
Maximilianeum, Munich; Twelve Scenes illustrating
Redemption of Mankind, Castle
Stolzenfels; Adam and Eve (1853), Raczynski
Gallery, Berlin.—Brockhaus, iv. 948; Förster,
v. 379; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 46;
Reber-Pecht, ii. 151; Wiegmann, 60, 131.
DÉGUSTATION (Tasting), Gerard Terburg,
formerly in Narischkine Gallery, St.
Petersburg. A lady, in a yellow satin corset,
black velvet pelerin, and gray skirt,
seated beside a table, on which are an ink-*stand,
pen, and paper, is tasting wine from
a Venice glass held in her left hand; in her
right she holds a white pot with a tin cover,
which rests upon her knee; in back of the
room, a bed with red curtains. Sale of
Count Perregaux (1841), 8,000 fr.; Delessert
sale, (1869); Narischkine sale, Paris (1883),
51,050 fr.—Smith, ix. 537.
DEHODENCQ, (EDMÉ ALEXIS) ALFRED,
born in Paris, April 23, 1822. Genre
and history painter, pupil of Léon Cogniet;
has travelled much in Spain and North Africa,
whence he takes many of his subjects.
Medals: 3d class, 1846 and 1853; medal,
1865; L. of Honour, 1870. Works: Saint
Cecilia (1844); In Doubt (1845); St. Stephen
led to Torture (1846); Visitation (1847);
Christ in the Tomb, Camoens (1848); Virginia
found Dead upon the Shore (1849),
ordered by State; Bull Fight in Spain
(1850), formerly in Luxembourg Museum;
Gypsy Men and Women returning from a
Festival in Andalusia (1853); Jewish Concert
at the House of a Morocco Cadi (1855);
Execution of a Jewess in Morocco, Married
Jewess of Tangiers (1861); Columbus at the
Convent of Rabida (1864); The Good Venture,
Jewish Festival in Morocco (1865); The
Pasha's Justice (1866); Ruth and Naomi,
Punishing Thieves in Morocco (1867); Arrest
of Charlotte Corday (1868); King Boabdil's
Farewell to Granada (1869); Jewish
Festival in Tangiers (1870); October Morning
in Luxembourg (1872); Othello (1873);
Negro Dance in Tangiers, Arab Children
playing with a Turtle (1874); The Reader
(1875); Christ raising the Daughter of Jairus
(1876); Morocco Story-Teller (1877);
Bacchus (1878); The Married Jewess, Departure
of Mobiles in July, 1870 (1879); The
Pasha's Sons, Arrest of a Jew in Tangiers
(1880); Morocco Prisoners, Morning Meal on a
Farm, Going to Work (1881); Towing (1883).
