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 Bordeaux Museum; Cows in a Pasture.—Ch. Blanc, École française; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Lejeune, Guide, i. 330.

LE PRINCE, JEAN BAPTISTE, born at Metz, in 1733, died at St. Denis du Port, Sept. 30, 1781. French school; genre painter, pupil of an unknown painter in Metz, and of Boucher; spent five years (1760-65) in Russia, and painted peasant life successfully. Member Academy, 1765. Many of his works are engraved. Works: The Body-Guard (1776), Louvre; Baptism by the Greek Rite (1765), Ministry of Justice; Two Landscapes, View near Tobolsk, Rouen Museum; Walk in the Park, Nancy Museum; Mountainous Landscape, Orléans Museum; Place Louis XV., Besançon Museum; Russian Concert (1770), Angers Museum; Ceilings in several Russian palaces.—L'Art (1880), xxi. 193; Bellier, i. 1016; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Lejeune, Guide, iii. 151; Ch. Blanc, École française.

LERCHE. See Stoltenberg-Lerche.

LERIUS, JOSEPH HENRI FRANÇOIS VAN, born at Boom, near Antwerp, Nov. 23, 1823, died at Mechlin, Feb. 28, 1876. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Brussels and Antwerp Academies, then assistant of Wappers in 1841-44; visited Germany and Italy in 1852-54, and became professor at Antwerp Academy in 1854, member of Dresden Academy in 1858, and of Amsterdam Academy in 1863. Gold medal; Order of Leopold, 1861; Bavarian Order of St. Michael, 1869. In his latter years became insane. Works: Scene from Kenilworth, Milton dictating to his Daughters, Paul and Virginia, Esmeralda (1848); Adam and Eve, Four Ages (1851); The First Born (1852); Joy and Sorrow (1857); Golden Age (1861); Joan of Arc (1862); Triumph of Virtue (1863).—Art Journal (1866), 265; (1876), 176; Dioskuren, 1868.

LEROLLE, HENRY, born in Paris; contemporary. History and genre painter, pupil of Lamothe. Medals: 3d class, 1879; 1st class, 1880. Works: Baptism of SS. Agaard and Aglibert (1874); The Tears of Mary Magdalen (1875); The Toilet (1876); At the Fountain, Druidic Ceremony (1877); Communion of the Apostles (1878); Jacob and Laban (1879); In the Country (1880), Luxembourg Museum; At the Banks of the River (1881); Arrival of the Shepherds (1883); At the Organ (1885).

LEROUX, CHARLES (MARIE GUILLAUME), born at Nantes, April 25, 1814. Landscape painter, pupil of Corot. Medals: 3d class, 1843; 2d class, 1846, 1848, 1859; L. of Honour, 1859; Officer, 1868. Works: Souvenir of Fontainebleau, Marshes of the Sèvre, Avenue of Elms (1834-42); Festival in Upper Poitou (1843); Downs of Escoublac, Prayer of the Young Elms, View of Croisic (1848); Castle of Batz, Souvenir of Pornic (1853); Marsh of Rabinière, Vallon, Edge of the Woods (1855); The Erdre in Winter, The Loire in Spring (1857), Nantes Museum; Islands of the Lower Loire, The Erdre (1859); Souvenir of Poitou (1869); Mouth of the Loire (1870); Souvenir of Poitou (1873); The Loire near Paimbœuf (1874); Castle of Batz in Storm (1875); High Tide at Préfailles (1876); The Loire at Low Tide (1877); Avenue of Chestnuts (1878); Mist rising near Paimbœuf (1879); Village near Soulliers (1880); Overflowed Meadows near Nantes, Marshes of the Lower-Indre (1882); Pond of Thau, Environs of Narbonne (1883); Road near St. Brévin, Dunes of Chênes Verts (1884); Marsh of the Lower Loire, Champ du Coteau-aux-Soulliers (1885).—Bellier, i. 1022; Larousse; Müller, 334.

LEROUX, EUGÈNE, born in Paris, Sept. 28, 1833. Genre painter and lithographer, pupil of Picot; paints chiefly life in Brit