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 Madrid Museum.—L'Art (1877), xi. 25, 137, 235; Bellier, i. 877; Ch. Blanc, École française, ii.; Jal, 729; Lejeune, Guide, iii. 142.

LAGYE, VICTOR, born in Antwerp; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Leys; takes his subjects principally from life of 14th and 15th centuries. Lives in Antwerp. Order of Leopold. Works: Antiquary; Mother laying her Child into Cradle; Sculptor at Close of 15th Century; Bridal Procession; Gypsies; Archer; Enchantress, Brussels Museum; Flemish Interior, Robert Hoe, New York; Fair Amanuensis, Mrs. Paran Stevens, ib.; Historiographer, H. R. Bishop, ib.; Departure, H. L. Dousman, St. Louis.—Müller, 316; Riegel, Wandmalerei in Belg., 42.

LAHORIO, LEON, born in Russia in 1827. Landscape painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy, where he won the first prize in 1850; then studied in Italy, and afterwards became professor in St. Petersburg. Works: Well near Rocca di Papa; Castello Fusano; View near Sorrento; Shore on Black Sea; Landscape in the Caucasus (1870).

LA HYRE. See Hire.

LAIA, painter. See Iaia.

LAIRESSE, GERARD DE, the elder, born at Liège in 1640, buried at Amsterdam, July 28, 1711. Dutch school; history and allegory painter, pupil of his father, Renier de Lairesse, and of Bartholet Flemael, but formed himself chiefly after Nicolas Poussin, whence sometimes called the Dutch Poussin. Emigrated early to Holland, and lived successively at Bois-le-Duc, Utrecht, The Hague (where mentioned as member of the guild in 1684), and Amsterdam; having become blind in 1690, he gathered around him a circle of artists and patrons of art, to whom he communicated his ideas; thus originated the work published by his son, "Het Groot Schilderboek." His three brothers, Ernst, Jakob, and Jan, were all painters, and his sons, Abraham, Gerard, and Jan, were his pupils and imitators. Works: Institution of the Eucharist, Cleopatra landing at Tarsus, Dance of Children, Choice of Hercules, Louvre; Two Allegories, Mars, Venus and Cupid (2), Diana and Endymion, Seleucus ceding his Wife and Sceptre to Antiochus, Amsterdam Museum; Death of Pyrrhus, Brussels Museum; Achilles recognized by Ulysses, Bacchus consoling Ariadne, Apotheosis of William III, Hague Museum; Bacchus and Pomona with Nymphs, Basle Museum; Bacchanale, Musée Rath, Geneva; Achilles among Daughters of Lycomedes, Venus Mourning, Dancing Children, Smithy of Vulcan, Bacchanal, Ulysses and Calypso, Ariadne and Bacchus, Rape of Sabines, Brunswick Gallery; Baptism of Achilles, Satyr and Nymphs, Berlin Museum; Achilles dragging the Body of Hector, Bacchus with Bacchantes, Death of Germanicus, Male Portrait, Cassel Gallery; Alexander and Roxana, Jeroboam's Pagan Altar, Copenhagen Gallery; Adoration of the Magi, Darmstadt Museum; Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus, Festival of Priapus, Fauns in a Landscape, Dresden Museum; Allegorical Representations of an Artist's Life (2), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Woman and Four Children, Priestess Offering, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Dido caressing Cupid in the Guise of Ascanius, Ulysses and the Sirens, Minerva restoring to Ulysses his Form, Solomon offering to the Idols, Artist's Portrait, Schleissheim Gallery; Seleucus ceding his Wife and Throne to Antiochus Soter (1673, replicas in Carlsruhe and Oldenburg Galleries), Hunting Booty of Diana, Satyrs and Nymphs in Jolly Combat (1687), Children's Scene in Italian Park, Children's Round-Dance, Schwerin Gallery; Venus and Cupid, Stuttgart Museum; Artillery Post, Soldiers and Women Carousing, Neptune and Amphitrite