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 LAURENS, JULES JOSEPH AUGUSTIN, born in Carpentras in 1825. Landscape painter, pupil of Delaroche. In 1847 he was sent by the State with two other artists on a journey through Turkey, Persia, and Asia Minor, during which he made many sketches for future paintings. Medals: 3d class, 1853, 1859; 2d class, 1861; medal at Exposition of 1867; L. of Honour, 1868. Also an engraver and lithographer. Works: Grande Chartreuse (1840); Environs of Vaucluse (1845); The Danube (1850); Road to Teheran (1855); Country of Teheran (1857); Woman making Butter, Black Sea at Sinope (1861); Station of Tscharvadars (1863); Washerwomen at Teheran (1864); Roofs of Teheran in December (1865); Turkish Cemetery (1866); Winter in Persia (1867); Plateau of Auvergne, Fountain of Fontainebleau (1868); Road along the Sands, Gilliflowers and Chrysanthemums (1869); Lot's Wife (1870); The Bosphorus (1874); Halt at Gate of Teheran, St. Waast after Rain (1875); Washerwoman of Auvergne, Frontiers of Khorassan, Evening (1876); Chrysanthemums (1877); Ancient Temple at Vernègues, Dahlias in Provence (1878); Daisies in Provence (1879); Rock of Vann in Kurdistan (1879), Luxembourg Museum; Walls of Tauris in Persia (1880); Ravine at Artemare, Street in Persia (1881); Souvenirs of the Bosphorus (1882); Country near Constantinople, Chrysanthemums (1883); Mont Ventoux (1884); Souvenir of Anatolia (1885).—Bellier, i. 923; Bitard, 780; Larousse.

LAURI, FILIPPO, born in Rome in 1623, died there in 1694. Roman school; son and pupil of Baldassare Lauri (1570-1642), a landscape painter of Antwerp, and brother of Francesco Lauri (1610-35), a famous pupil of Andrea Sacchi, but who died young, after exciting the greatest hopes. Filippo, who was deformed, had instruction from Francesco, and afterwards from Caroselli, who married his sister; but he abandoned the style of the latter, and devoted himself to painting lively and humorous cabinet pictures. He executed these with so much spirit that his works were in great demand in Rome. He worked sometimes conjointly with Claude Lorrain, painting the figures in the latter's landscapes. His largest picture is Adam and Eve, in S. M. della Pace, Rome. Other works: Venus and the Seasons, Palazzo Doria, Rome; St. Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy, Offering to Pan, Apollo and Marsyas, Louvre, Paris; Landscape, Hague Museum; Flight into Egypt, Vienna Museum; St. Ann teaching the Virgin to read, Christ appearing to Magdalen, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Hagar in the Desert, Historical Society, New York.—Lanzi, i. 501; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne.

LAUS VENERIS, Burne-Jones, private gallery; canvas, H. 3 ft. 11 in. × 5 ft. 11 in. A young queen, in a vermilion robe, with a golden coronet resting on her knees, is reclining in a half-lighted room, hung with tapestry representing the triumph of Venus, attended by several lady companions, grouped a little apart from their mistress, one of whom is reading a hymn to the glory of Venus; through the window are seen six young knights in armor riding by, all looking eagerly in. Grosvenor Gallery, 1878; bought by John Graham; at his sale (1886), £2,460.—Athen. (1876), i. 867.

LAVIEILLE, EUGÈNE ANTOINE SAMUEL, born in Paris, Nov. 29, 1820. Landscape painter, pupil of Corot and Lequien. Medals: 3d class, 1849; Medal, 1864, 1870; Legion of Honour, 1878. Works: Evening, After the Storm, View on Plateau de Marlotte (1849); View on Plateau de Belle-Croix (1850), Lille Museum; April Morning, Evening in January (1864); Pierrefonds in 1858 (2), Pasture in Normandy, Fernery, (1870); September Evening in Fontaine