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 LE PRINCE Bordeaux Museum ; Cows in a Pasture. Cb. Blanc, ficole fran<;aise ; Villot, Cat. Louvre ; Lejeune, Guide, i. 330. LE PRINCE, JEAN BAPTISTE, bom at Metz, in 1733, died at St. Denis du Port, Sept. 30, 1781. French school ; genre painter, pupil of an unknown painter in Metz, and of Boucher ; spent five years (1760-65) in llussia, and painted peasant life successfully. Member Academy, 1765. Many of his works are engraved. Works : The Body-Guard (177G), Louvre ; Baptism by the Greek Rite (1705), Ministry of Jus- Golden Age (1801) ; Joan of Arc (1802) ; Triumph of Virtue (1863). Art Journal (I860), 265; (1876), 176; Dioskuren, 1868. LEROLLE, HENRY, born in Paris ; con- temporary. History and genre painter, pu- pil of Lamothe. Medals : 3d class, 1879 ; 1st class, 1880. Works : Baptism of SS. Agaard and Aglibert (1874) ; The Tears of Mary Magdalen (1875) ; The Toilet (1876) ; At the Fountain, Druidic Ceremony (1877) ; Communion of the Apostles (1878) ; Jacob and Laban (1879) ; In the Country (1880), tice ; Two Landscapes, View near Tobolsk, Luxembourg Museum ; At the Banks of the Rouen Museum; Walk in the Park, Nancy River (1881); Arrival of the Shepherds Museum ; Mountainous Landscape, Orleans (1883) ; At the Organ (1885). Museum ; Place Louis XV., Besauyou Mu- : LEROTJX, CHARLES (MARIE GUIL- LAUME), born at Nantes, April 25, 1814. fj /J S J //*) Landscape painter, pupil of Corot. Medals : J J~ Q/0 / 7 ' _ 3d class, 1843 ; 2d class, 1846, 1848, 1859 ; Souvenir of Fontainebleau, Marshes of the Scvre, Avenue of Elms (1834-42) ; Festi-, val in u PP er Poitou ( 184:i ) ; Downs of Es - coublac, Prayer of the Young Elms, View of seum ; Russian Concert (1770), Angers Mu- Croisic (1848) ; Castle of Batz, Souvenir of seum ; Ceilings in several Russian palaces. Pornic (1853) ; Marsh of Rnbiniere, Vallon, L'Art (1880), xxi. 193 ; Bellier, i. 1016 ; Vil- Edge of the Woods (1855) ; The Erdre in lot, Cat. Louvre; Lejeune, Guide, iii. 151 ; Winter, The Loire in Spring (1857), Nantes Ch. Blanc, Ecole franeaise. Museum ; Islands of the Lower Loire, The LERCHE. See Stvlti'iibny-'Lerclic. Erdre (1859) ; Souvenir of Poitou (1869) ; LERIUS, JOSEPH HENRI FRANCOIS j Mouth of the Loire (1870) ; Souvenir of VAN, born at Boom, near Antwerp, Nov. Poitou (1873) ; The Loire near Paimbceuf 23, 1823, died at Mechlin, Feb. 28, 1876. , (1874) ; Castle of Batz in Storm (1875) ; History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil High Tide at Pivfailles (1876) ; The Loire of Brussels and Antwerp Academies, then at Low Tide (1877) ; Avenue of Chestnuts assistant of Wrappers in 1841-44 ; visited (1878) ; Mist rising near Paimbceuf (1879) ; Germany and Italy in 1852-54, and became Village near Soulliers (1880) ; Overflowed professor at Antwerp Academy in 1854, Meadows near Nantes, Marshes of the Low- member of Dresden Academy in 1858, and j er-Indre (1882) ; Pond of Thau, Environs of of Amsterdam Academy in 1863. Gold i Narbonne (1883) ; Road near St. Bivvin, medal; Order of Leopold, 1861; Bavarian Dunes of Chi-nes Verts (1884); Marsh of the Order of St. Michael, 1869. In his latter Lower Loire, Champ du Coteau-aux-Soul- years became insane. Works : Scene from Hers (1885). Bellier, i. 1022; Larousse; Kenilworth, Milton dictating to his Daugh- 1 Mailer, 334. ters, Paul and Virginia, Esmeralda (1848) ; ' LEROUX, EUGENE, born in Paris, Sept. Adam and Eve, Four Ages (1851) ; The, 28, 1833. Genre painter and lithographer, First Born (1852) ; Joy and Sorrow (1857) ; pupil of Picot ; paints chiefly life in Brit- 67
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