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 LE POITTEVIN Education of Achilles (1769), Chateau of Vin- j ceuues ; Visitation (1769), Bayonne Cathe- dral ; Narcissus changed into the Flower (1771), Trianon ; St. Louis rendering Justice under an Oak at Viucenues (1773) ; Piety of Fabius Dor so (1781), Chartres Museum ; Resur- rection (1781), Cathedral, Chalon-sur-Saone; Zeal of Mathathias (1783) ; Farm Yard, for- merly in the Louvre ; Spinning Woman, Portrait of a Young Painter, Orleans Muse- um ; Female Head, Nan- tes Museum ; The Sister, Historical Society, New York. f L ' A r t ' (1876), iv. 211; Bcllicr, i. 1013; Ch. Blanc, Ecole franchise, ii. LE POITTEVIN, EUGENE (MODESTE EDMOND), called Poi- devin born in Paris, July 31, 1806, died there, Aug. 6, 1870. Landscape and genre painter, pupil of Ecole des Beaux Arts and of Louis Hersent. Trav- elled much on the Con- tinent and in England. His first picture, The Harvesters (1826), was bought by the Duchesse de Bcrri. Medals : 2d class, 1831 ; 1st class, 1836 ; 2d class, 1848 ; 3d class, 1855 ; L. of Honour, 1843 ; member of the Antwerp and Berlin Acad- emies. Works : Normandy Courtyard (1830), Orleans Museum ; The Thames, A Stable (1831) ; Low Tide, On the Scotch Coast (1833) ; Rescuing Scene (1834), Nan- tes Museum ; Battle at Wertingen 1805 (1835), Versailles Museum ; Fishermen sav- , ing a Wreck (1836), Leipsic Museum ; Nor- mandy Fishermen, Flemish Cottage (1836); Souvenir of Belgium, Return of the Fisher- men (1837) ; Ice, Behind the Downs, Red Cap (1838) ; Shipwreck (1839), Amiens Mu- seum ; Adrian van der Velde landing at Blankenberg (1840) ; Gulf of Naples (1841) ; Naval Battle at Embro 1346 (1841), Taking of Baruth 1109 (1844), Versailles Museum; Villa d'Este, Blue Grotto at Capri (1842) ; Adriaan Brouwer painting Sign at an Inn (1843), New Piuakothek, Munich ; Van der Velde sketching during a Battle, Fossoyeur and his Children (1843) ; Stroke of the Spur (1845) ; Education of Achilles (1846), Ra- venii Gallery, Berlin ; First Wound (1847) ; No Smoke without Fire, Honeymoon (1848) ; The Party-Wall (1849) ; The Shepherd and the Sea, The Cask of Cider (1850) ; Pirates, Friends of the Farm (1852) ; Right of the Strongest, Monks of the Cape (1853) ; Win- ter in Holland (1855); Winter, Hedge School (1857) ; Dutch Pilots, Cottage in Normandy (1859) ; Pleasures of Summer (1861), Carn- brai Museum ; Country Doctor, Fishing on the Ice, Future Painter of Still Life (1861) ; Cinderella's Dream (1864) ; Monks of the Cape (1865) ; Souvenir of Scheveniugen (1866); Shipwreck in Polar Sea (1867); Delicate Attention, Gathering Potatoes (1868) ; Breaking Ice (1868), Angers Mu- seum ; Environs of Etretat(1870), formerly in Luxembourg Museum ; Fort de 1'CEuf, Marseilles Museum ; Landscape, J. J. As- tor, New York ; Seaside Life, C. H. Wolff, Philadelphia ; Dutch Market on the Ice, W. Mason, Taunton. Art Journal (1870), 308 ; Bellier, i. 1014 ; Hamerton, Painting, 52. LE PRINCE, A. XAVIER, born in Paris, Aug. 28, 1799, died at Nice, Dec. 24, 1826. Genre and landscape painter ; studied Cuyp, a/ Adrian van de, - J(^ Velde, and ua- / f ture. Works : C^^C/CtU Al/Cfc_ Embarkation of Cattle at Honfleur (1823), Pass of Susten in Switzerland (1824), Louvre ; Landscape, 66