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 *ic and expressive, and carefully executed. Paints also on porcelain. From 1863 to 1874 he was director of the School of Art in Limoges. Medals, 2d class, 1857, 1861, 1863. Works: Flagellation (1848); Interior (1852); Clouds, Man Drinking (1853); St. Sebastian (1855); Fall of the Rebel Angels (1857); Orpheus charming Wild Beasts, Grandmother (1859); Head of an Old Man (1861); Dancing Fauns (1867); Adoration of Shepherds (1872); Good Samaritan (1875); Deluge (1876); Raising of Lazarus (1879); Evening (1880); Poor Man (1881); The 14th of July (1883).—Bellier, i. 872; Larousse.

LAFOND, CHARLES NICOLAS RAPHAËL, born in Paris in 1774, died there Jan. 16, 1835. History painter, pupil of Barthélemi, Suvée, and Regnault. Medals: 3d class, 1804; 2d class, 1808; 1st class, 1817; L. of Honour, 1831. Works: Good Samaritan (1804); Empress Josephine surrounded by Children (1806); Death of Jacob in Egypt (1808); Clemency of Napoleon towards Mlle. de Saint-Simon (1810), Versailles Museum; Saul (1814), Dijon Museum; Æneas on Mount Ida (1817); Taking of Montereau-Faut-Yonne by Charles VII. (1819), Melun Museum; Numa Pompilius and the Nymph Egeria (1819), Versailles Museum; Episode in War in Spain, Waking of Psyche (1819); Duc de Bordeaux presented to the People (1822); Chaste Susanna, Love and Discord contemplating their Work, Homer blind and reduced to Beggary (1824); Annunciation, Sacred Heart of Christ, Apparition to St. Clotilde, St. Louis in Prayer before Battle (1824), Chapel of Princess de Condé, Temple, Paris; Prodigal Son; Christ on Calvary (1831), Ministry of Public Works, Paris; Eve seeing herself in a Wave, Sappho singing her Last Verses, Psyche Abandoned, Reflexions (1831).—Bellier, i. 871.

LA FOSSE, CHARLES DE, born in Paris, June 15, 1636, died there, Dec. 13, 1716. French school; history painter, pupil of Chauveau and Lebrun up to 1658; then studied in Rome after Raphael, and for three years in Venice. On his return he painted in St. Eustache, the choir and roof paintings in the Assumption, and executed frescos in Versailles and Meudon. Went to London in 1689 and 1690 to decorate the country house of Lord Montagu, and after his return executed (1692-1707) paintings in the cupola of the Church of the Invalides. Member of the Academy in 1673, professor in 1674, director in 1699, rector in 1702, chancellor in 1715. Works: Moses saved from the Waters, Annunciation, Marriage of Virgin, Rape of Proserpine (1673), Triumph of Bacchus, Sacrifice of Iphigenia, Louvre; Christ served by the Angels in the Desert, Hope and Temperance, Faith and Charity, Grenoble Museum; Christ giving the Keys to St. Peter, Lille Museum; Aristotle in Love, Montpellier Museum; Assumption, Scenes of the Deluge, Nancy Museum; Deification of Æneas, Venus asking Arms of Vulcan, Jupiter overcoming Callisto, Nantes Museum; Pan and Syrinx, Daphne fleeing from Apollo, Jethro presenting his Daughter Zipporah to Moses, Orléans Museum; Coronation of the Virgin, Sunrise, Rouen Museum; Clytia changed into a Sunflower, Apollo and Thetis, Annunciation, Trianon Palace; Resurrection, Apsis of Chapel, Versailles Museum; Apollo on his Chariot accompanied by the Seasons, Augustus causing the Port of Mycene to be built, Vespasian directing the building of the Coliseum, Coriolanus raising the Siege of Rome, Alexander restoring to Porus his Lands, Salon d'Apollon, ib.; Jason and the Argonauts landing at Colchis, Alexander at the Lion-Hunt, Sacrifice of Iphigenia, Salle de Diane, ib.—Bellier, i. 873; Ch. Blanc, École Française, i.; Jal, 724; La