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 LAFRENSEN rousso, x. 04; Mcmoires im'dits, ii. 1 ; il- lot, C;it. Louvre. LAFRENSEX (Lavrcince), NICOLAS, lioru in Stockholm, Oct., 1737, died there, Dee. (I, 1S08. Genre, portrait, and history painter, pupil of his father, a Swedish minia- ture painter ; went to Paris in 1771 ; made a member of the Stockholm Aeademy and court-painter in 17 Hi, but returned to Paris in 1774, where lie painted many rococo pieces in the style of Lancret, Pater, and Fragonard. In Stockholm, after 1791, lie j painted portraits, small historical scenes, and rural fetes. Gn/.. des B. Arts (1809), i. liSO : Wur/bach, Fr. Maler des xviii. Jahrh.. 38. LAGARDE. PIERRE, born in Paris : contemporary. History, genre, and land- sen] >u painter, pupil of Busson, Humbert, Dubufe, and Mazerolle. Medals: 3d class, 188:2 ; id class, 1885. Works : Valley of Itethondes (1878) ; Susanna at the Bath (1879); Education of a Parrot (1880) ; The Virgin in the Desert (1881) ; Annunciation to the; Shepherds (1882) ; Christ and the Woman of Samaria (1883); End of the Day (1884); Suiicr Fluiniiia Babylonis, The Vigil (1885). LAGRFXKE, ANTHELME FRANCOIS, born in Paris in 1775, died there, April 27, I8:i2. History, genre, and portrait painter, son and pupil of Louis Jean Francois La- grenee and pupil of Vincent ; served in the army during several campaigns ; went to St. Petersburg in 1823, painted portraits for the Emperor Alexander and some excellent pictures of Russian life. On his return to France gave up history for miniature paint- ing. Bellier, i. 880. LAG ItKX KE, .IEAX .JACQUES, born in Paris in 1740, died there, Feb. 13, 1821. History painter, pupil of his brother Louis Jean Francois, with whom he went to Rus- sia in 1700, and to Rome in 17(!3. In 1775 [ he became member of the Academy, and professor in 1781. Made many designs for Sevres porcelain, on the manufacture of which he exercised much influence. Works : "r It/) / O & Melancholy, Louvre; Winter (1775), Ceiling in Galerie d'Apollon, ib. ; A Marriage in An- tiquity (1776), Angers Museum ; Equestrian Portrait of General Bapp with his Aides-de- Camp, Colmar Museum ; St. John preaching in the Desert, Grenoble Museum ; Taurea /" t Jubellus s t a b- ./ flnlJBWbL- bing Ilimself be - ' fore the Procon- sul Fulcius (1799), Mout- pellier Museum ; Artemisia at the Tomb of Mauso- lus, Orleans Mu- seum ; Portrait of a General, Strassburg Museum. Bellier, i. 879 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole francaiso. LAGRENEE, LOUIS JEAN FRANCOIS, born in Paris, Dec. 30, 1724, died there, .June 19, 1805. History painter, pupil of Carle van Loo ; won the grand prix ; went to Rome in 1750, and returned in 1753 ; re- ceived into the Academy iii 1755, and made professor in 1758. In 17GO the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna called him to St. Peters- burg to replace Le Lorrain as director of the Academy and court-painter, but he returned to Paris in 1703, and in 1781 became direc- tor of the French Academy in Rome. Na- poleon made him chevalier of the L. of Honour and rector of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1804. Works: Abduction of De- janira (1755), Justice and Clemency (17G5), Louvre ; Alexander visiting the Family of Darius (1785), Mercury committing Bac- chus to the Nymphs of Naxos, Angers Museum ; Genii of the Arts, Bayeux Mu- seum : Diana at the Bath, Besaiic.on Mu- seum ; Two Widows of an Indian Offi- cer (1783), Dijon Museum ; Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, Museum, Douai ; Res- urrection, Assumption, St. Peter's, ib.; Cupid chained by the Graces, Marseilles / / ^Q fQ4f >g Museum ; Alexander / consulting Oracle at Delphi (1789), Mont- pellier Museum ; Visitation, of the Virgin,