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director-general of the national museums, he opened new galleries and classified pictures according to schools at the Louvre, and reorganized many provincial museums. In 1863 he became director of the Marseilles Museum. Medals: 2d class, 1833; L. of Honour, 1855; Corresponding Member of Institute, 1863. Works: Little Patriots (1830), Caen Museum; Smugglers Halting, Workmen on a Strike (1833); Peasants of Limousin (1834); Blacksmiths of Corrèze (1836); Criminals collecting Upas Poison (1840); Gypsies (1846); Abandoned Harbour of Ambleteuse (1850), Luxembourg Museum; Flight into Egypt, Duc de Luynes; Harbour of Andresselles, Establishing the Telegraph at Cape Gris-Nez (1850); Fishermen at the Ferry, Susanna (1852); View of Cape Gris-Nez (1853), Boulogne Museum; Dead Low Tide (1853), Douai Museum; Camp of Equihem (1855), Chartres Museum; Camp of Ambleteuse (1855), Aix Museum; Tintoretto and his Daughter in the Campagna, Fra Bartolommeo, Raphael and the Fornarina, Sea-Birds, Long Absence (1857); Phœnician and Slave (1859); Banks of the Seine (1859); Arras Museum; Valley of Posavera, Return of the Fishermen, Battle of Solferino, Zouaves by the Sea (bought by State), French Soldiers at Solferino, French Soldiers near Genoa (1861); Old Willows of Hyères, Baths of Bonnettes (1863); Marseilles Lighthouse (1864), Notre Dame de la Garde and the Castle of If (1865); Pond of Belmont (1868); Cape Couronne (1869); Stone Terrace at Comborn (1870); Notre Dame des Anges, Cape Gris-Nez (1874); Waiting, Stubble, River Durance (1875); From Genoa to Marseilles (1876); View in the Limousin, Lille Museum; Portrait of Mirabeau, Versailles Museum.—L'Art (1877), vi. 189; (1878), ix. 96; Bellier, i. 827; Gaz. des B. Arts (1865), xix. 24, 535; Larousse.
JEAURAT, ÉTIENNE, born in Paris,
Feb. 8, 1699, died in Versailles, Dec. 14,
1789. French school. Genre painter, pupil
of Vleughels, whom he accompanied to
Rome when that painter was appointed director
of the French Academy in that city
(1724). On his return
to France,
he was elected a
member of the
Academy, and
produced pictures
of great merit.
Many of his works
have been engraved.
Member
Academy 1733;
professor, 1743;
rector, 1765; chancellor, 1781; custodian
of the Versailles Gallery. Works: Diana
and Actæon, Esau and Jacob (1737); Diana
Resting (1738); Departure of Achilles
(1738), Cambrai Museum; Boy Playing with
Syringe (1739); Daphnis and Chloë (1741);
Seamstress, Woman in Confinement, Afternoon,
Taking Harlots to the Hospital, Painter
Moving, Village Wedding, Painter's Studio,
Diogenes breaking his Bowl (1747),
Louvre; Achilles going to avenge Patroclus,
Two Savoyards, Woman dressing Salad
(1753); An Arrest (1755); Lemon Trees of
Javotte (1763); Wine-Press in Burgundy,
Peasant Women keeping a Vigil (1769);
Cook returning from Market, Besançon Museum;
Christ giving the Keys to St. Peter,
Kitchen Interior, Vandyck
(attrib.), Male
Portrait (attrib.), Orleans
Museum; Familiar
Scene (1774), Hermitage,
St. Petersburg.—Bellier,
i. 828; Ch. Blanc, École française;
Wurzbach, Fr. Maler des xviii. Jahrh, 32;
Larousse.
JEBENS, ADOLPH, born at Elbing, West-Prussia, March 19, 1819. Portrait painter, pupil of Berlin Academy, and, 1836-39, in Paris of Delaroche; afterward visited Paris again and Italy. In 1845-63 he painted in St. Petersburg large military portraits for the Czars Nicholas and Alexander; since 1863 in Berlin. Member of St.