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 Ladder (1847); Vision of Zachariah (1850), Rochefort Museum; Music (1852); Diana and Endymion (1857); Job (1859); Loves of the Angels (1862); Orpheus (1866); Hope (1868). In fresco: Three Episodes in Life of St. Remy, St. Clotilde's, Paris.—Bellier, i. 867; Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), iii. 186; (1862), xiii. 367, 383; Meyer, Gesch., 405; Larousse.

LAENEN. See Lamen.

LA FARGE, JOHN, born in New York in 1835. Landscape and figure painter, decorator, glass painter, and sculptor, pupil of William M. Hunt. Since 1856-57, when he first went to Europe, he has repeatedly crossed the Atlantic. His illustrations of Browning's poems, published in 1859, were followed by many figure, still-life, and landscape pieces, and these by a great deal of decorative work. Latterly he has devoted himself almost exclusively to glass painting. His chief work in sculpture is the King family monument at Newport, R. I. (1878). Member of Society of American Artists. Elected N.A. in 1869. Studio in New York. Works: St. Paul (1861); Various Flower Pieces (1860-65); Altarpiece for St. Peter's—New York (1863); New England Pasture Land (1866); The Last Valley (1867); Boy and Dog (1868); The Golden Age (1869); Trinity Church Decorations—Boston (1876); Chancel of St. Thomas' Church—New York (1877); Battle Window—Harvard Memorial Hall (1880); Staircase Windows—William H. Vanderbilt's House (1881); Ceilings for Cornelius Vanderbilt's House (1882); Apple Orchard in Spring (1884).—Art Journal, (1885), 261.

LAFAYE (Lafaist), PROSPER, born at Mont-Saint-Sulpice (Yonne), in 1806. History and genre painter, pupil of Couder; unsuccessful in painting landscapes, he tried history and genre with better result, but since 1850 has confined himself chiefly to glass decoration. Medal, 2d class, 1835. Works: Village Drum (1833); Violence of Nogaret and Colonna toward Pope Boniface VIII. (1834); Battle of Bouvines (1835); Louis XIV. departing for the Conquest of Franche Comté, Cholera in Paris (1837); Song of Departure (1838); Battle of Ceramo (1839), Versailles Museum; Holbein at Court of Henry VIII. (1839); Samson and Delilah; Bedroom of Louis XIV. at Versailles (1840); Battle of Ascalon (1841), Versailles Museum; Masked Ball, Brother and Sister (1843); The Labourer (1844); Hall of the Crusaders, The Unemployed (1845); Josephine (1848); Interior in Style of Louis XIV., Ravené Gallery, Berlin; Child's Slumber (1880); Low Mass at Saint-Gervais (1881); Complémentaires, Expulsive Seizure (1882); Battle of Formigny—1450, Taking of Gray, do. of Château Sainte Anne in 1668, Six Copies of Battles by Martin, Versailles Museum.—Bellier, i. 869.

LAFON, ÉMILE (JACQUES), born at Périgueux (Dordogne), Jan. 27, 1817, died in Feb., 1886. History and portrait painter, pupil of Gros and Delaroche. Medal, 3d class, 1843; L. of Honour, 1859. Works: Communion of the Virgin (1843); Christ on the Waters (1844); Holy Family (1846); Death of St. Francis Xavier, do. of St. Peter of Verona (1848); Denis Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris (1849), Rodez Museum; Episode in Massacres in Syria (1861); Louis XVII. and Simon in the Tower of the Temple (1863); Saint Jean de Dieu—Founder of the Order of that Name (1865), Christ among the Doctors (1867), Luxembourg Museum; Kiss of Judas (1875, 1877); The Magdalen at the Sepulchre, The Orphans (1880).—Bellier, i. 871; Meyer, Gesch., 288.

LAFOND, ALEXANDRE, born in Paris, April 24, 1815. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Ingres. His portraits are energet