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 LION AT HOME, Rosa Bonheur, private gallery. A grand old lion and lioness lie side by side, while three tiny cubs press sleepily against their mother. Painted in 1882. Engraved by W. H. Simmons and T. L. Atkinson.—London Times, Jan. 25, 1884.

LION HUNT (Chasse au Lion), Eugène Fromentin, Collection Verdé-Delisle, Paris. Two horsemen in a rocky defile attacked by a male lion, advancing from left; one of the riders, overthrown and caught under his prostrate horse, is aiming a pistol at the lion; the second, near whom is an Arab on foot, is reining back his horse; in background, a third horseman is aiming his gun at something behind the rocks. Etched by E. L. Montefiore.—Gonse, Fromentin, 234.

Lion Hunt, Rubens, Munich Gallery.

LION HUNT, Rubens, Munich Gallery; canvas, H. 8 ft. 4 in. × 12 ft. 4 in. Several mounted men engaged in a savage contest with lions, one of which has pulled from his horse one of the huntsmen and is tearing him into pieces, though himself transfixed with spears. Formerly in Gallery of Duc de Richelieu. Engraved by Bolswert.

LION'S BRIDE, Gabriel Max, private gallery. Illustration of Uhland's poem of same name (Die Löwenbraut). A young woman, daughter of the menagerie keeper, who has been accustomed to go into the lion's den with impunity, enters it to bid her friend farewell just before her wedding-day, and is killed by the melancholy brute, who recognizes that it is her last visit. The lion lies crouching on her prostrate form and glaring with glassy-green eyes at her lover, who is seen through the bars of the cage with a pistol in his hand.—Benjamin, 130.

LIOTARD, JEAN ÉTIENNE, born at Geneva in 1702, died there in 1789. French school; portrait and genre painter, pupil of Jean Baptiste Massé, and of Lemoyne in Paris, whither he went in 1725; the Marquis Puysieux took him to Naples, whence he went to Rome to paint the Pope and the Stuart family. In 1738-42 he painted in Constantinople many dignitaries and foreign ambassadors; in 1749 he went to Vienna, where he was munificently rewarded by the Empress Maria Theresa for her and her family's portraits, and thence to France and England. In 1772 he visited London again, to remain two years, carrying with him a precious collection of paintings by famous masters, which he sold successfully. His portraits in pastel are especially remarkable, and preserve to this day their brightness of colour. Works: La belle Liseuse (1746), Marshal Maurice de Saxe, Empress Maria Theresa, do. (1760), Louis de Bourbon—son of Louis XV., Marie Josephine de Saxe—wife of preceding, Countess of Marlborough, nine other portraits, The Three Graces, Gamin of Geneva, Amsterdam Museum; Artist's portrait in Greek Costume, Marshal Maurice de Saxe, Vienna Chocolate Girl, La belle Lyonnaise (1746), Dresden Museum; Prince Frederic of Saxe-Gotha Altenburg, Gotha Museum; Old Woman fallen asleep over the Bible (1760), Vienna Museum; Empress Elizabeth Christine, Empress Maria Theresa, Emperor