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- brandt and to Gerard Dou, but probably
painted about 1660 by Gerrit Lundens, proves that the original was cut off as shown in the accompanying outline sketch. Judging from the proportions of this copy, the original, which was placed in the Treppenhuis Museum in 1808, was formerly 12 ft. 8 in. high × 16 ft. 6 in. long. It was restored in 1758 by Van Dijk, and again superficially in 1852 by N. Hopman. Engraved by L. A. Claessens (1797); J. W. Kaiser (1867). Etched by Unger; Flameng; Massaloff; Charles Waltner (1886). Lithographed by A. Mouilleron.—Cat. Amsterdam Gal.; Vosmaer, 147, 462; Smith, vii. 59; Gaz. des B. Arts (1860), vi. 368; (1885), xxxii. 406; Mollett, Rembrandt, 42; Fromentin, 325.
SOUCHON, FRANÇOIS, born at Allais
(Gard), Nov. 19, 1787, died at Lille, April
5, 1857. History painter, pupil of David;
director of school of painting at Lille in
1836-1857. Works: Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
(1824), Cathedral of Bordeaux;
Sick Man (1827), Lille Museum; Raising
of Lazarus (1827), Church of St. Nicolas-des-Champs,
Paris.—Bellier, ii. 52; Devémy,
Notices biographiques sur Fr. Souchon
(Douai, 1875).
SOUCHON, WILHELM FERDINAND,
born at Halberstadt in 1825. History,
genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Berlin
Academy under Remy, then in Munich
(1848) of Kaulbach and Anschutz, and finished
his studies in Rome and Naples,
1851-54. He settled at Leipsic in 1855.
Works: Thirty Biblical Scenes, Greek
Church, Leipsic; Christ Blessing, Church
at Thronitz, Saxony; Last Supper, Church
at Grunau, ib.; Pifferari and Beggar, Emperor
of Germany.—Müller, 498.
SOURCE, LA, Dominique Ingres, Louvre,
Paris; canvas, H. 5 ft. 5 in. × 2 ft.
3 in.; signed, dated 1856. A young girl,
nude, with blonde hair, standing in a rocky
niche, her right arm raised above her head,
with her fingers grasping the bottom of a
vase, which, inclined upon her shoulder, is
held by her left hand; three little streams
of water flow from its mouth into a pool
in which her feet are reflected. London
Exchange, 1862. Bequeathed by Comtesse
Duchâtel, 1878. Engraved by Calamatta;
L. Flameng.—Ch. Blanc, Life, 192.
SOUTMAN, PIETER, born in Haarlem
about 1580, died there, Aug. 16, 1657.
Dutch school; history and portrait painter,
supposed pupil of Rubens; was for several
years court painter to the King of Poland,
became a citizen of Antwerp in 1620, and
returned to Haarlem in 1628. Works:
Two Archery-Pieces (1642, 1644), Haarlem
Museum; Laocoon and his Sons, Cassel
Gallery.—Bode, Studien, 110; Kramm, v.
1545; Van der Willigen, 266.
SOWER (Le semeur), Jean François Millet,
William H. Vanderbilt Collection, New
York. A sturdy peasant, bony and swart,
with a bag of grain about his waist, is striding
along sowing grain on a hill-side; on
the other side of the slope a last ray of sun
shows a pair of oxen and a man at the end
of their furrow. The gesture of the sower,
says Théophile Gautier, is "so beautiful
that Triptolemus, guided by Ceres, on some
Greek bas-relief, could not have more majesty."
Painted in 1850; Salon, 1850. The
first Sower (1849), Q. A. Shaw, Boston, was
laid aside by Millet because the canvas was
too short, and the present one painted for
the Salon. Etched by Maris.—Art Treas.
of Amer., iii. 86.
SOYER, PAUL, born in Paris; contemporary.
Genre painter, pupil of L. Cogniet.
Medals: 1870; 2d class, 1882. Works:
Card Party (1883); Head of Old Peasant
(1884); Foundry at Antoigné, My Gardener
(1885); Interior of Forge (1886).
SPADA, LIONELLO, born in Bologna
in 1576, died in Parma, May 17, 1622. Bolognese
school; first colour-grinder, and
then pupil of the Carracci; after executing
a few works in Bologna, went to Rome and
became the pupil of Caravaggio, whom he
followed in all his travels. After his master's
death (1609), Spada returned to Bologna,
where his vanity and arrogance won him the