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Agnes, Saint Eustache, ib.; Decorations of one of the grand salons de réception in the Hôtel de Ville (burned under the Commune); Ceiling of Victory in the Palace of the Tuileries (destroyed under the Commune). He made also designs for Gobelin tapestry for the Apollo Gallery, Louvre.—Bellier, ii. 638.
VAUTIER, BENJAMIN, born at Morges
on Lake Geneva, April 24, 1829. Genre
painter, pupil at Geneva of Hébert and of
Lugardon, then (1850) in Düsseldorf of the
Academy and of Jordan; studied peasant
life in the Black Forest and in the Berne
Highlands, then attracted by Knaus went
in 1856 to Paris, and six months later
settled in Düsseldorf, where he at once
achieved a brilliant success with his Church
Scene, exhibited at the historical exhibition
at Munich in 1858, and has since attained
a position by the side of Knaus as one of
the great painters of popular life. He has
made also masterly illustrations to works
by Auerbach and Immermann. Member of
Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Antwerp, and Amsterdam
Academies. Professor in 1866.
Gold medals: Berlin, 1864; Paris, 1865,
1866; 2d class, 1867; 1st class, 1878. Order
of Francis Joseph, 1868; Order of Red
Eagle; Order of St. Michael, 1869; L.
of Honour, 1878. Works: Church Scene
(1858); Auction in Old Castle (1859); Sunday
Morning Toilet; Women coming from
Church find their Husbands at the Inn
(1862), Leipsic Museum; Sewing School;
The Tutor; Peasant and Broker, Involuntary
Confession, Basle Museum; Saying
Grace, Berne Museum; Peasants at Trial,
Sick Mother, Musée Rath, Geneva; Sunday
in Suabia; Peasants in a Picture Gallery;
Young and Old; The Sisters; Repast after
Funeral, Cologne Museum; First Dancing
Lesson (1868), National Gallery, Berlin;
Antiquary in Peasant's Cottage; Sail over
Brienz Lake to a Funeral; Farewell of Dying
Peasant Woman; Interrupted Brawl
(1869); Entrapped Rat, Stettin Museum;
Toast to the Bride (Rococo Costume, 1870),
Hamburg Gallery; Ruse for Ruse, Public
Dinner (1871); Burial (1872); Consulting his
Lawyer, W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Visit at
the Fireside (1873); Quarrel at Chess; Invitation
to the Dance; Departure from Home
(1875); Before the Meeting (1876); Little
Barefoot; Intermission at Alsatian Wedding
(1878), Dresden Gallery; The Mayor's
Annual Dinner (Exposition universelle,
1878), John G. Johnson, Philadelphia; Waiting
Room at Post Station; Arrest of Usurer
(1879); Visit of Young Couple (1880); Obstinacy
(1882), Düsseldorf Gallery; Botanist,
Alsatian Woman (1882).—Illustr. Zeitg.
(1878), ii. 463; (1879), ii. 274; (1881), ii.
10; (1882), ii. 531; Jordan (1885), ii. 229;
Kunst-Chronik, i. 85; v. 94, 143; vi. 119;
viii. 60, 627, 807; ix. 450, 578, 820; x. 139,
459; xi. 74, 273; xvii. 337; xviii. 740; Land
und Meer (1869), i. 54; Br. Meyer, stud. u.
Krit., 246; Müller, 531; Pecht, iii. 351;
Reber-Pecht, iii. 341; Zeitschr. f. b. K, iii.
166, 279; iv. 17, 177; vi. 148; ix. (Mittheilungen,
ii. 28); xii. 259 (Mit., v. 50).
VAYSON, PAUL, born at Gordes (Vaucluse);
contemporary.
Genre and flower
painter, pupil of
Gleyre and Laurens.
Medals: 3d class,
1875; 2d class, 1879;
L. of Honour, 1886.
Works: Hay Making
in Provence (1868);
Sheep in Provence
(1879); Departure of the Herd (1880);
Herds coming down from Mountains (1881);
Herd Returning (1882); Fair of St. Trinité
in Provence (1883); Threshing Corn;
Hunter of Camargue; Sleeping Shepherdess;
Spring (1884); Truffle Gatherers, Bull
in Pasture (1886).
VECCHIA, PIETRO DELLA, born in
1605, died there in 1678. Venetian school;
pupil of Alessandro Varotari, who imitated
the style of Giorgione and of Pordenone so
successfully that some of his pictures have
been attributed to them. Most of his works