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L. of Honour, 1831. Works: Neapolitan Improvisator (1824); Peasant Woman of the Campagna (1824); Festival of the Madonna dell' Arco (1827), Arrival of Harvesters in the Pontine Marshes (1830), Louvre; Hermit of Monte Epomeo—Isle of Ischia, Receiving Fruit from Young Girl, Nantes Museum; Italian Bandit Wounded, Bandit Women in Flight, Basle Museum; Roman Girl with Tambourine, Berne Museum; Children of Canton Berne, Italian Girls, Sacristy of S. Giovanni in Laterano, Rome, Musée Rath, Geneva; Basilica of S. Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome after the Fire (1823), Interior of do., Central Fragment of L'Improvisatore, Fishers of the Adriatic (1834), Views in Rome (2), Retreat of Brigands, Le Septembriseur, Portraits (4), and Studies (5), Neuchatel Museum; Italian Brigand Asleep (1822), National Gallery, Berlin; The Mowers (1835, last work), Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Woman of Procida with her Child (1826), New Pinakothek, Munich; do. (1831), Königsberg Museum; Robber Asleep guarded by his Wife (1823), Leipsic Museum; Gipsy, August Belmont, New York; Roman Ruins, B. Wall, Providence.—Feuillet de Conches, Léopold Robert (Paris, 1849); Clement, Léopold Robert (Paris, 1874); Hamerton, French Painters, 54; Meyer, Gesch., 514; Planche, Portraits d'Artistes, ii. 1.

ROBERT-FLEURY, (JOSEPH) NICOLAS, born in Cologne, Aug. 8, 1797, of French parents. History and genre painter, pupil of Girodet, Gros, and Horace Vernet. Lived much in Rome up to 1826, when he settled in Paris. In 1833 he exhibited Scene in the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, which at once gave him a high position. Medals: 2d class, 1824; 1st class, 1834, 1855, 1867; L. of Honour, 1836; Officer, 1849; Commander, 1867; Member of Institute, 1850; director of French Academy at Rome, 1866. Works: Tasso in Convent of San Onofrio (1827); Reading at Mme. de Sévigné's (1833); Eve of St. Bartholomew (1833), Compiègne Palace; Procession of the Ligue, Religious Discussion (1834); Regent in Council, Constable Albert de Luynes (1835); Henri IV. brought back to the Louvre after his Assassination (1836); St. Francis de Sales (1837); Christ and Little Children (1837), Nantes Museum; Coming out of Church (1837); Entry of Clovis into Tours (1838), Arrival of Baldwin of Flanders at Edessa, 1097 (1839), Versailles Museum; Conference at Poissy in 1561 (1840), Luxembourg Museum; Release of St. Peter, Ambroise Paré, Children of Louis XVI. in Temple (1840); Pierre de la Ramée awaiting the Murderers on St. Bartholomew's Day, Neuchatel Museum; Inquisition, Michelangelo tending his Sick Servant Urbino, Benvenuto Cellini at Work (1841); Marino Faliero; Burning a Heretic; Rembrandt's Studio (1845); Galileo, Christopher Columbus received at the Court of Spain (1847); Massacre of Jews in London on Coronation Day of Edward II. (1848), Report to the Cardinal (1849), Ravené Gallery, Berlin; Jane Shore (1850), Luxembourg Museum; The Venetian Senate (1850); Death of Montaigne (1853); Sack of a Jew's House (1855), Luxembourg; Charles V. at San Yuste (1857); Philip VI. of Valois, Connetables Dues de Luynes and de Lesdiguières, Marshals Biron and Villeroy (1835), Versailles Museum; The Toilet, Montpellier Museum; Three Portraits, Nantes Museum; The Body of Titian lying in State in the Palazzo Barbarigo—Venice, Portrait of the Artist, Antwerp Museum. Also executed important decorative works in the audience hall of the Tribunal de Commerce, Paris.—Bellier, ii. 397; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 188; Larousse; Meyer, Gesch., 279; Saint Vallière, Notice sur la vie, etc. (Paris, 1847); Zeitschr. f. b. K., v. 121.

ROBERT-FLEURY, TONY, born in Paris, Sept. 16, 1838. History, genre, and portrait painter, son of Joseph Nicolas, pupil of Paul Delaroche and Léon Cogniet.