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Little Tony (1844); Oracle of the Fields, Inquisitive Little Girl, Self-Love, Fatinitza (1845); Season for Roses, Satisfaction, Woman Listening (1846); Season for Fruit, Daughter of Eve, Darling Sin, (1847); Fallen Angel, Tear of Repentance, Polyhymnia (1849); Flowers and Jewels (1852); Portrait of the Empress Eugénie, Fancies (1853); Loves of the Angels (1855); Breton Poacher, Rain in Brittany, Plouescat Peasants returning Home, Muse of Luxury (1857); Evening Prayer in Brittany, The Muse of Candour, Prayer (1859); Broken Thread, Flower Girl (1861); Farm in Brittany, Loves of the Angels (1866); Breton Trooper, Ferns (1868); Brittany in Autumn (1870); Fever-Stricken Bretons, Hasty-Pudding (1873); Edge of a Moor (1874); Pond in Quimerch (1875); Farm in Finisterre, Pond in Quimerch (1879); The Hellé, Pond in Quimeréts (1880); Hollow Road in Brittany, A Heath (1881); Shore of a Pond, Mill of Losten-Vir (1882); Calm on a Pond, Ruins in an old Park (1883); Pike's Nest, Moor in Brittany (1884); Beech-Tree Offal, Autumn (1885); Glade, Beech-Tree Avenue (1886).—Bellier, ii. 670; Meyer, Gesch., 388; Larousse.

VIEN, JOSEPH MARIE, Count, born at Montpellier, June 18, 1716, died in Paris, March 27, 1809. French school; history painter, pupil of Giral and of Natoire in Paris; won grand prix in 1743, spent five years in Rome, and after his return became member of the Academy, and adjunct professor in 1754, and professor in 1759. With Regnault, David, Vincent, and Suvée, he founded the modern classical school. In 1775-81 he was director of the Academy at Rome, in 1781 became rector and in 1788 chancellor of the Paris Academy, in 1789 first painter to the king, and in 1795 member of the Institute. Order of St. Michael, 1775. Napoleon made him a senator, count, and commander of the Legion of Honour. Works: St. Germain and St. Vincent (1755), Dædalus and Icarus (1754), Sleeping Hermit (1750), Cupids playing with Swans, Flowers and Doves (1758), Louvre; Miraculous Draught of Fishes (1759), Marseilles Museum; Christ with the Disciples at Emmaus (1759), Resurrection, Hermit Asleep (study for painting in the Louvre), Orléans Museum; St. Germain giving a Medal to St. Genevieve (1761), Saint Louis, Versailles; Rape of Proserpine (1763), Grenoble Museum; Marcus Aurelius ordering Food to be distributed during a Famine (1765), Amiens Museum; St. Denis preaching the Gospel in France (1767), St. Roch, Paris; St. Gregory (1767), Sacristy, St. Louis, Versailles; The Magdalen (1775), Verdun Cathedral; Briseis led from the Tent of Achilles (1781), Return of Priamus with the Body of Hector (1785), Angers Museum; Circumcision, Bordeaux Museum; Moses with the Law Tables, Douai Museum; Lot and his Daughters, Havre Museum; Christ healing the Son of the Captain of Capernaum, Marseilles Museum; St. Gregory the Great, St. John in the Desert, Old Man Asleep, Academical Figure, Montpellier Museum; Religion, Nancy Museum; Christ on the Cross, Nîmes Museum; Anger of Achilles, Rouen Museum. His wife and pupil, Marie Thérèse, née Reboul (born in Paris in 1728, died there, Dec. 28, 1805), was a good miniature painter, and received into the Academy in 1757. Their son, Joseph Marie (born in 1762, died in 1848), was a portrait painter, pupil of his father and of Vincent. Portraits of himself and his wife are in the Rouen Museum; a portrait of his father is in the Montpellier Museum.—Bellier, ii. 672; Biog. univ., xliii. 357; Ch. Blanc, École française, iii.; Éméric-David, Sur Vien (Paris, 1809); Jal, 1265; Le Breton, Not. hist.