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See also:ROLL, See also:ALFRED PHILIPPE (1846– ) , See also:French painter, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 1st of See also:March 1846. See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
Pupil of Ger6me and See also:Bonnat at the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts, he made his debut at the See also:Salon in 1870 with " Environs of See also:Baccarat " and " Evening," and attracted the widest See also:attention in 1875 by his See also:colossal See also:painting of " The See also:Flood at See also:Toulouse " (now at the See also:Havre Museum). All his See also:early See also:work is imbued with the spirit of romanticism under the See also:influence of See also:Gericault, whilst his See also:colour tended to Bolognese heaviness with a strong leaning towards dark shadows in the flesh painting, in which he closely followed See also:Courbet. In 1877 he showed at the Salon the " Fete of See also:Silenus " (now at the See also:Ghent Museum), a painting of such vivid colour and exuberant See also:life that it recalls the work of See also:Jordaens. About this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he began to devote himself to the realistic rendering of See also:modern life, especially among the working classes, and together with romantic subjects he abandoned his earlier heavy colouring, and devoted himself to the study of See also:free See also:light. His " Miners' Strike " of 188o (now at the See also:Valenciennes Museum) placed him in the front See also:rank of modern French painters, and from that date his career was one of continuous and brilliant success. He became " See also:official painter " to the
French See also:government, and was entrusted with numerous commissions for the decoration of public buildings and for commemorative pictures, like the " See also:President See also:Carnot at See also:Versailles at the See also:Centenary of the Etats Generaux " (now at Versailles See also:Palace), and " The Tzar and President See also:Faure laying the See also:Foundation See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
Stone of the See also:Alexandre III. See also:Bridge." For the Hotel de Ville he executed " The Pleasures of Life " and " The Rosetime of Youth." Besides the pictures already mentioned, a vast number of his See also:works are to be found in the public galleries of See also:France. The museum of the Hotel de Ville in Paris owns his " See also:National Fete at Paris in 188o "; the See also:Cognac Museum, " Labour, Works at Suresnes "; the Luxembourg, his " See also:War " and " Manda Lametrie, See also:farm-See also:hand." At See also:Avignon Museum is the " See also:Don Juan and Haidee "; at See also:Laval Museum, " See also:Halt! "; at See also:Fontainebleau Palace, " In See also:Normandy "; at See also:Pau Museum, " Roubey, cementer"; and at the Museum of See also:Geneva, " Marianne Offrey, crieuse de vert." In See also:portraiture he is known by his " Yves See also:Guyot," " See also:Coquelin See also:cadet," " Jules See also:Simon," &c., but his greatest success was the See also:group of " Fritz Thaulow and his Wife." In 1905 he replaced Carolus-See also:Duran as president of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, of which he was one of the founders.
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