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Works: Suliote Woman keeping Watch for her Father, Huntsman on Rocky Cliff, Fishermaiden on Strand, Fisherman's Family expecting Father, Fisherwoman on Achen Lake, Two Chamois Hunters, Hunter and Shepherdess, Knight and his Sweetheart, Greek Women on Battlefield all in (1826-35); Two Madonnas, Holy Family, The Diver, The Princess, Count of Hapsburg (1835-38); Minstrel's Curse (1838), Cologne Museum; Scene on the Isar near Munich, Darmstadt Museum; Madonna (1839); Emperor Sigismund, Römersaal, Frankfort; Frederic Barbarossa kneeling before Henry the Lion (1852); Age of Pericles, Maximilianeum, Munich; Italian Mother with Children by the Sea, Pilgrimage in the Mountains, Peasant Woman and Child; Scene from Defence of Tyrol, Brera Gallery, Milan; two great Hunting Scenes; Rhine Legends, Schönborn Palace, Munich; Götz von Berlichingen and the Monk, Vienna Museum; King Louis I. and Family looking at Painting, Madonna, Frauenlob. Frescos: Foundation of Academy of Science, and four Allegorical Figures, Arcades, royal garden, Munich; twenty-three scenes from Schiller's and nineteen from Bürger's Ballads, Royal Palace, Munich; Times of Day, Gods of Greece instructing Man, Schönborn Palace, Munich.—Allgem. d. Biogr., vii. 150; Brockhaus, vi. 943; Kunst-Chronik, xii. 771; Illustr. Zeitg. (1881), i. 333.


FONTAINE, EDMÉ ADOLPHE, born at Noisy-le-Grand (Seine-et-Oise), May 8, 1814. Portrait, genre, and landscape painter, pupil of Léon Cogniet. Medal, 3d class, 1852. Works: Ibrahim Pasha at the Military School of Saint Cyr (1847-85); Supreme Court at Versailles (1850-55); Visit of Napoleon III. to School of Saint-Cyr (1853); The Letter (1857); Attack of Selinghinsk Earthwork, February 23, 1855 (1859); Mass at Pont l'Abbé, Studio Interior (1861); Cæsar and his Fortune (1863); Bay of Audierne, Finistère, Villa of Quintilian on the Via Appia (1875); Studio Interior (1878).—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 561.


FONTAINEBLEAU, FOREST OF, Narciso Diaz de la Peña, T. W. Walters, Baltimore; canvas, H. 2 ft. 6 in. × 2 ft. 1 in.; dated 1871. Autumn scene. Diaz painted many views of the Forest of Fontainebleau, some of which are in the following collections: W. H. Vanderbilt, New York; Samuel Hawk, ib.; M. Graham, ib.; J. W. Drexel, ib.; J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; R. C. Taft, Providence; H. P. Kidder, Boston; Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, Philadelphia.

By Theodore Rousseau, Louvre; canvas, H. 4 ft. 7 in. × 6 ft. 5 in.; signed. Sunset scene on the border of the forest. Salon of 1855; formerly in Luxembourg. Rousseau spent many years in the Forest of Fontainebleau, which supplied him with numerous subjects.




FONTANA, LAVINIA, born in Bologna, Aug. 26, 1552, died in Rome in 1614. Bolognese school; daughter and pupil of Prospero Fontana; married Paolo Zappi, son of a rich merchant of Imola, who aspired to be a painter, but without success. Lavinia went to Rome about 1592, and won considerable reputation as a portrait painter. She also executed several altarpieces like her father's in colour, but inferior in design and execution. Works at Bologna: Virgin and Saints, S. Giacomo Maggiore; do., La Madonna del Baracano; Miracle of Loaves and Fishes, Chiesa dei Mendicanti; Crucifixion, S. Lu-