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Palermo, Montereau, Dieppe, Havre (1836); Châlon-sur-Saône, Harbour of St. Malo (1837); Farm-Yard in Burgundy (1838); Grand Canal and S. M. della Salute in Venice (1840); Thun (1841); Entry of Emperor Henry IV. into Venice (1843), Grenoble Museum; Square and Fountain of Tophane in Constantinople (1846); Mosque at Scutari; Wall paintings in Notre Dame at Chardonnay.—Bellier, ii. 336; Larousse.



RAHL, KARL, born in Vienna, Aug. 13, 1812, died there, July 9, 1865. History and portrait painter, son of the engraver Karl Heinrich Rahl, pupil of Vienna Academy; won the first prize in 1832, visited Germany, Hungary, and France, then studied in Rome (1836-43) after the antique; returned to Vienna, and in 1845 went to Holstein, and in 1847 to Copenhagen, where he painted several members of the Danish court. After living a few years in Munich, he was called in 1850 to Vienna as temporary professor at the Academy, but resigned after one term and opened a school of painting, where he instructed eighty pupils, among whom were Bitterlich, Eisenmenger, Griepenkerl, Lotz, and Than. For years disregarded and slighted—his grand compositions for the decoration of the Vienna Arsenal having also been refused—he at last obtained deserved prominence through the patronage of Baron Sina, executed a number of monumental exterior and interior decorations in palaces and public buildings of Vienna, and in 1863 was nominated professor at the Academy. Works, Altarpieces: Madonna (1829); Baptism of Christ (1830); Marriage of the Virgin, St. Joseph of Calasanz (1841), Piaristenkirche, Vienna; Assumption (1848); Trinity, St. Catharine, St. Simon, St. Georg, Madonna, Greek Church, Vienna. Mythology and Allegory: Prometheus rejecting Pandora (1834), Development of the Sciences in Greece (1860), Jason taking the Golden Fleece, Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1861), Rape of Helen (1863), Baron Sina, Vienna; Arion singing to the Nereids (1848); Orestes pursued by the Furies (1852); Hercules serving Omphale (1860); Four Elements (1861); Four Cardinal Virtues of Austria's Regents, Vienna Academy; Boreas eloping with Eireithyia, Munich Art Union; Arts of Peace (12, 1861), Heinrichshof, Vienna. History: David hiding in Cave of Adullam (1832); Confederation on the Rütli in 1307; Hagen declared Siegfried's Murderer (1835), Charles of Anjou finding Manfred's Body (1838), Vienna Museum; Hagen and Volker before Chriemhilde's Door (1836); Persecution of Christians in Rome (1844), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; replica (1847), National Gallery, Berlin; Bishop Kolonitsch bringing Christian Prisoners from Turkish Camp (1853); Samson and Delilah (1854); Manfred's Entry into Luceria in 1254; Moses protecting Reuel's Daughters; Leopold the Virtuous on the Walls of Ptolemais. Genre and Landscape: Woman saving her Child from Lion (1834); Rugantino, Old Catalonian, Old Roman (1838); Woman from Procida (1839); View near Terracina (1840); Neapolitan Marinaro singing to his Sweetheart (1841); Fortune-Teller (1841), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Rural Scene near Rome, Girl at the Well (1842); Lute-Player (1850); Italian Woman with Tambourine (1853); do. at the Well (1856). Portraits: The Painters Wächter (1834), Riepenhausen (1846), Cornelius, Genelli, Heinrich Hess, Kaulbach (1848), Aigner (1851), Kovács, Ricard (1854), Willers (1857), the sculptors Brandenburger (1836), Martin Wagner (1838), Hähnel (1850), and Pilz, the architects Ernst and Hansen (1854), the poets Robert Prutz (1848), Ludwig A. Frankl (1855), the philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach (1848), all at the Deutches Hochstift, Frankfort; Martin Wagner, New Pinakothek, Munich; Ernst Willers, Old Man, Two Female Heads, Schack Gallery, ib.; the poets Kerner (1833), Schwab, Lenau,