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by Schlotthauer and Zimmermann. Beyond these are eight pictures of similar size and shape: Achilles with the Daughters of Lycomedes (painted by Zimmermann), Mars and Venus wounded by Diomed (Schlotthauer), Agamemnon's Dream (id.), Venus protecting Paris against Menelaus (Zimmermann), Ajax overcoming Hector (Cornelius), Nestor and Agamemnon awakening Diomed (id.), Priam begging the Body of Hector (Zimmermann), Farewell of Hector and Andromache (Schlotthauer). The arabesques about these pictures were painted by Eberle and Neureuther. Walls: On the three walls are large paintings with colossal figures. 1. Assembly of the Greeks and Anger of Achilles; 2. Combat over the Body of Patroclus; 3 Destruction of. Troy, all painted by Cornelius, aided by Zimmermann and Schlotthauer. Painted in 1825-30.



TROYON, CONSTANT, born at Sèvres, Aug. 28, 1810, died in Paris, Feb. 21 (March 20, ?), 1865. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Riocreux and Poupart and influenced by Roqueplan to study nature, for which he showed an individual feeling in first exhibited works, 1836. Visited Holland in 1847 and completed his education. After 1848 introduced cattle into his landscapes. Rose to be one of the greatest, if not the first, of modern French landscape painters. Medals: 3d class, 1838; 2d class, 1840; 1st class, 1846, 1848, 1855; L. of Honour, 1849. Works: Colas House at Sèvres, Festival at Sèvres, Bit of Park of St. Cloud (1833); View at Sèvres, Palace of St. Cloud, Slopes of St. Cloud (1835); View near Argenton (1836); View at La Ferté-St.-Aubin (1837); St. Cloud, Black Road at St. Cloud, Landscape near St. Cloud, Country Fair in Limousin (1838); Studies of Breton Scenery, View near Orléans (1840); Tobias and the Angel (1841); Women Bathing (1842); View near Vannes (1843); Forest of Fontainebleau, Below the Forest (1844); View near Fontainebleau, View at Caudebec (1845); Valley of Chevreuse, Clearing in the Woods, A Poacher, Beneath the Woods at Fontainebleau (1846); Forest of Fontainebleau, Hollow Road in Normandy, Environs of Amsterdam, Environs of The Hague (1848); Sézanne, Village of Corfelia, The Mill, Studies of Sheep, Landscape near Paris (1849); Flock of Sheep, Drinking-Place (Montpellier Museum), Cattle Mart, Storm at Monton-Gluine (1850); Cows in Pasture (1851), Leipsic Museum; Valley of La Tonque (1853), Comtesse Lehon; Drinking-Place at La Tonque (1853), Montpellier Museum; Hollow Road (1853); Dogs in Leash (1854), Cattlepiece (1855), Ravené Gallery, Berlin; Cattle and Sheep driven across Meadow (1855), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Oxen going to Work (1855), Louvre; Cows at a Drinking-Place, Dogs Running, Dogs Let Loose, Dogs in Leash, White Cow, Red Cow (1855); Return to Farm (1859), Louvre; Going to Market, Cow in Pasture, Cows going to Fields, Study of Dog (1859); View in Park of Neuilly, Amiens Museum; Labouring Oxen, Bordeaux Museum; Flock of Sheep in a Landscape, Sunset, Havre Museum; View in Forest of Fontainebleau, Lille Museum. Works in United States: Autumn Woods with Cattle, Cattle, On the Road, Cows in Landscape, William H. Vanderbilt, New York; Cow at Brook, Charles F. Woerishoffer, ib.; Sheep, T. A. Havemeyer, ib.; Holland Landscape and Cattle, Cow, Miss C. L. Wolfe, ib.; Cattle Drinking, do. Grazing, Water-Cart, A. Belmont, ib.; Normandy Cattle, J. H. Stebbins, ib.; Cow and Sheep, R. Hoe, ib.; Coming Storm, J. P. Morgan, ib.; Under the Master's Eye, William Astor, ib.; Repose, W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Cattle, Feeding Chickens, Borie Collection, Philadelphia; Crossing the Ford, H. C.