Diazdela Peha

Diaz de la Peha, Narcisso Virgilio (1809-1870), a French painter of Spanish descent, born at Bordeaux. He was of considerable though irregular talent, and excelled chiefly as a colourist. He was a good landscape painter, but committed the fault of putting his landscapes into the background, and filling the foreground with badly-drawn figures of nymphs and cupids and the like. Among his best known pictures are Nymphes de Calypso (1840), Gypsies e/oinq to the Feast (1844), and Mare aux Viperes (1857).