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 LANDELLE in a Garden, Love Couples with Birds' Nests, Girls Bathing, Kitchen Interior, Sim- ilar Subject, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Infancy, Youth, Manhood, Age, National Gallery, London ; and many in private col- lections in England and France. Bellier, i. 895 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole francaise ; Dohme, 3 ; Houssaye, Gal. du xviii. Siecle, i. 2G3 ; Jal, 734 ; Larousse ; Lejeune, Guide, i. 219 ; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Wedmore, 183 ; Wurz- bach, 24. LANDELLE, CHAELES, born at Laval (Mayeune), June 2, 1821. Genre painter, ' pupil of Delaroche and of Ary Scheffer, whom he vainly tried to approach in depth of expression. Executed decorative works in the Elysee Palace and in St. Sulpice, Paris, and painted many portraits. Medals : 3d class, 1842 ; 2d class, 1845 ; 1st class, , 1848 ; 3d class, 1855 ; L. of Honour, 1855. Works: Fra Angelico (1842); Elegy, Char- ity (1844) ; Virgin and Holy "Vomen at Tomb (bought by State); Fleurette aban- doned by Henry IV. (1845); Little Gypsies (1846); Young Egyptian Woman (1847); St. Cecilia (1848); The Republic (1849); Christ with St. Peter and St. John, St. Ver- onica (1850), Pan Museum ; The Antiquary ; Beatitudes (1852), Laval Museum ; Renais- sance (1853), Louvre ; The Virgin Resting ' (1855), St. Germain 1'Auxerrois, Paris ; Jew- ess of Tangiers ; Armenian Woman, Finland Girl (1857), M. Achille Fould ; Portrait of Admiral Baudiu (1857), Versailles Museum ; Presentiment of the Virgin (1859), Luxem- bourg Museum ; Girl with Birds (1859) ; Emperor and Empress at Glass Works of St. Gobain ; Captive Jewesses in Babylon (18G1), Moutauban Museum; Procession of the Cross at Brest (1861); Idleness (1863) ; Awakening (1864) ; Meditation (1865) ; Ar- menian Woman, Fellah Woman, Prison in ] Tangiers, Child of Aisaom (1867) ; Moorish Woman (1868) ; Mountaineer of Aragon (1869) ; Velleda (1870) ; The Almeh (1872) ; Samaritan Woman, Young Servian Gypsy (1873), Nantes Museum ; Revery at Sixteen (1874) ; Angel of Purity, Angel of Grief j (1875) ; Salmacis (1877) ; Ismenis (1878) ; Messenger of Storms, Siren (1879) ; Nymph of Fontana, Venetian Woman (1880) ; Wom- an of Siloam in Jerusalem, Young Fellah Woman in Cairo (1881) ; Naiad, Woman of Boghari (1882) ; Woman of Bethlehem, Carpet Bazaar, Cairo (1883) ; Country of Golden Fruit (1884) ; Modern Law, Little Orphan Girl (1885) ; Roman Girl, Virlan- dese Girl, Circassian Girl, Robert Hoe, New York ; Angel's Watch, Israel Corse, ib. ; Dolce far niente, C. P. Huntington, ib. ; Greek Girl, G. T. Martin, Brooklyn ; Egyp- tian Fellah Girl, C. H. Wolff, Philadelphia ; Neapolitan Girl, W. B. Bement, ib. ; Paul and Virginia, B. Wall, Providence ; Egyptian Girl of Thebes, J. W. Garrett, Baltimore. Bellier, i. 89(! ; Bitard, 765 ; Revue des Deux Mondes, June, 1871 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1878), xvii. 156 ; Larousse ; Hamerton, Painting in France, 62 ; Meyer, Gesch., 367, 389. LANDI, GASPARO, Cavaliere, born at Piacenza in 1756, died in Rome, Feb. 24, 1830. History and portrait painter, pupil in Rome of Pompeo Battoni and Corvi, and studied the great masters of the 16th cen- tury, acquiring a certain purity of style and excellent colouring. Won the first prize at the Academy of Parma in 1781 ; at an ear- ly age became director of the section for painting in the Academy of San Luca in Rome, and in 1817 president. He is looked upon as one of the founders of modern Italian painting, and is famous for his por- traits, especially that of Canova. Works : The Three Marys at the Tomb of Christ, Palazzo Pitti, Florence ; Burial of the Vir- gin, Assumption, Piacenza Cathedral ; To- bias and Sarah ; Christ at Golgotha ; (Edi- pus in Colonos ; Mary Stuart leaving France ; Portrait of Canova, Bergamo Gallery ; The Three Marys at the Sepulchre, Florence Academy. Goethe, Wiiikelmanu, ii. 154 ; Nouv. Biog. univ., xxix. 348. LANDO, LORENZ DI. See Vecchietta. LANDON, CHARLES PAUL, born at Nonaut (Orue) in 1760, died in Paris, March