9, 1833. History, figure, and portrait painter, pupil of H. Vernet and L. Cogniet. Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works: Last Moments of Francis II. (1865), City Hall, Orléans; Zenobia rescued by the Shepherds (1867), Young Girl bitten by Reptile and rescued by her Brother, Orléans Museum; Children surprised by Storm (1868); Disciples at Emmaus (1869); Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (1874); Christ on the Cross (1875); Entombment, Meditation (1876); Bashi-Bazouks abducting Woman (1877); The Wave (1879); The Cup is Empty (1880); Portraits (1880, 1881, 1882); Mother playing with her Child (1883); Bathing Woman, Repose (1884); Rape of Psyche, Portrait of Henri Mercier (1885).
DURAN. See Carolus-Duran.
DURAND, ASHER BROWN, born in
South Orange, N.
J., Aug. 21, 1796.
Landscape painter;
prominent as
an engraver until
1835, when he
turned his attention
to painting;
studied in Europe
in 1840. One of
original members
of National Academy, and its president
from 1845 to 1861. His earliest works were
portraits. Works: Wrath of Peter Stuyvesant;
Capture of André; Harvey Birch
and Washington; Forest Primeval; Franconia
Mountains; Dance on the Battery;
Alpine View, near Meyringen; In the Woods
(1867), Jonathan Sturges, New York; Trysting
Tree (1869), Benjamin H. Field, ib.;
August Afternoon, L. Tuckerman, ib.;
Sketcher (1870); Close of Day (1871); Harbour
Island—Lake George (1873); Franconia
Notch (1874)—Pemigewasset River, Scene
in the Woods, R. L. Stuart, New York;
Thanatopsis, J. P. Morgan, ib.; Landscape,
M. K. Jesup, ib.; Berkshire Hills, Hurlbut
Collection, Cleveland; Il Pappagallo, Brook
Study, Studies from Nature (1876); Recollection
of Adirondack Scenery (1880).—Sheldon,
128.
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DURAND, SIMON, born in Geneva; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Barthélemy Menn; subjects original, and mostly humourous. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1875. Works: Barber Shop, Permit to Stay (1873); Conjugal Dispute, Perplexed Brazier (1874); Marriage at the Mayor's Office, Band of Vagabonds (1875); Marriage at Church (1876); A Market, Between Fruit and Cheese (1877); Acrobat's Wounded Child (1878); An Alarm, Blacksmith's Leisure (1879); Bonhomme Noël (1880); Birds of Passage, An Apprentice (1882); A Scandal (1883); Sentimental Tinker (1885).
DURAND-BRAGER, JEAN BAPTISTE
HENRI, born at Dol (Ille-et-Vilaine), May
21, 1814, died in Paris, April 27, 1879.
Marine painter, pupil of Gudin and Eugéne
Isabey; accompanied the fleet which carried
Napoleon's remains from St. Helena (1840),
the expeditions to Tangiers, Mogador, Madagascar,
and the Crimea, making many studies
and pictures. In 1865 he accompanied
Napoleon III. to Algiers as artist, and in the
same year painted the review of the united
French and English fleets near Cherbourg,
Brest, and Spithead. Medal, 3d class, 1844;
L. of Honour, 1844; Officer, 1865. Works:
Fight between French Frigate Niemen and
English Frigates Arethusa and Amethyst
(1844), Bordeaux Museum; Conquest of
Mogador (1845), Views (21) of Sebastopol
during the Siege, 1854-55, Versailles Museum;
Entry into Harbour of Marseilles,
Battle of Lissa.—Bellier de la Chavignerie,
i. 497; Meyer, Gesch., 753.
DÜRCK, FRIEDRICH, born in Leipsic,
in 1809, died in Munich, Oct. 25, 1884.
Portrait and genre painter, pupil in Munich
of his uncle, Joseph Stieler, and of the
Academy; travelled in 1836-37 in Italy,
studying after the old masters in Florence
and Rome. Since 1867 has been honorary
member of the Munich Academy. Works:
Portraits of Leuchtenberg Family, Louis I.
of Bavaria, Oscar of Sweden (1849); His
