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of Honour, 1877. Works: Venus and Cupid (1853); Tavern of Ramponneau in Time of Louis XV. (1857); Chimney Sweeps going to Work, Going to School, Woman tending Cattle, Road to School, Old Age and Decay (1859); Basque Women at Fountain, Breakfast (1861); Going to Mass (1863), Macon Museum; The Levée (1863); Going to the Festival, Catechism Lesson (1864); Souvenir of the Piazza Montanara in Rome (1865), Autun Museum; Excavations at Pompeii (1866), Luxembourg Museum; Kiarella (1866), Mrs. Shaw, Boston; Orange Harvest in Capri (1869); Convalescent Woman on a Pilgrimage (1873); The Marina in Capri, Daughter of Eve (1874); Wedding Feast of Peasant of Capri (1875), Valenciennes Museum; Christ and the Samaritan Woman (1876); Andromeda (1877); Father's Blessing before Marriage (1882); Rosina—Capri (1886).—Bellier, ii. 447; Larousse.


SAINT-AUBIN, GABRIEL JACQUES, born in Paris, April 14, 1724, died there, Feb. 14, 1780. French school; genre painter, pupil of Jeaurat, Colin de Vermont, and Boucher. Competed for the grand prix de Rome in 1751, and having obtained the second prize only, broke with the Academy, and became a member of and professor in the Academy of St. Luke, where he exhibited the following works: Cupid's Triumph over the Gods, The School of Zeuxis, Effect of Earthquake at Lisbon, Subject from La-*fontaine's Fables, Village Fête, Maternal and Filial Love, Boy reciting Lesson to Mother (1774); Artist's Portrait, Mother nursing Child, Triumph of Pompey, Dry-Nurse and Children, Return from Parliament, The King laying Corner-Stone of Schools of Surgery, Interior of Rotonda of Coliseum, Carnival of Parnassus (1776).—Bellier, ii. 449; Dohme, 3; Goncourt, i. 366, 405, 417.


SAINT-ÈVRE, GILLOT, born at Bault-sur-Suippe (Marne), died in Paris in 1858. History, genre, and portrait painter. Medals: 2d class, 1824; 1st class, 1827; L. of Honour, 1833. Works: Two Scenes in Shakespeare's "Tempest" (1822); Job and his Friends, Mary Stuart, Shipwrecked Sailors (1824); Charles IX. and Marie Touchet (1827); Soldier Asleep surprised by Brigands (1827), Angers Museum; Jeanne d'Arc, The Florentines of Boccaccio (1833); Charlemagne presiding at Meeting of Scholars (1835), Education of Mary Stuart at Court of Henri II. (1839), Palais de Trianon; Foundation of Royal Library in Paris in 1379, Marriage of Charles VIII. and Anne de Bretagne in 1491, Signing of Treaty of Peace at Vervins in 1598 (1837), Alexis Comnenus receiving at Constantinople Peter the Hermit, Interview between Philippe Auguste and Henri II. at Gisors—1188 (1839), Andrew of Hungary entering the Order of St. John in 1218, Philip I., Philip III., Charles V., Charles VI., and Charles VIII. of France, three other portraits, Versailles Museum; Jeanne d'Arc presented to Charles VII., Palais de Compiègne.—Bellier, ii. 451.


SAINT-JEAN, SIMON, born in Lyons. Oct. 13, 1808, died at Écully, July 3, 1860, Flower painter, pupil of the school at Lyons and of Augustin Thierriat. Justly called the modern Van Huysum, whom he approaches in detail and colour, though hardly his equal in selection of material and play of light. Medals: 3d class, 1834; 2d class, 1841, 1855; L. of Honour, 1843. Works: Young Girl carrying Flowers (1839), Vase Medicis (1841), Eucharistic Emblems around Head of Christ (1842), Vase with Flowers (1852), Lyons Museum; Fruits and Flowers (1845), Dijon Museum; Flowers in a Hat, Rouen Museum; Still-Life (2, 1852), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Fruit (1853), Flowers among Ruins (1854), Louvre; Fruit (1855), Corcoran Gallery, Washington; Flower-Piece (1857), Amsterdam Museum.—Bellier, ii. 452.


SAINTIN, HENRI, born in Paris, Oct. 13, 1846. Landscape painter, pupil of Pils, Saint-Marcel, Segé, and Cointepoin. Medal, 3d class, 1882. Works: Forest Path