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LE SUEUK Prefecture tie la Seine, Paris. Bellier, i. 1031. LE SUEUB, EUSTACHE, born in Paris, Nov. 19, 1(516, died there, April 30, 1655 ; French school. His- tory painter, pupil of Simon Vouet, with whom he quarrelled in 1641, and began an independent career. Taking his three brothers and his brother-in-law, M. Gousse, into his studio, he with their help painted many pictures, whose chaste sim- plicity of style and deep though unex- aggerated expression entitle him to be ranked as one of the chief glories of the French school. He was one of the first members of the French Academy of Paint- ing on its foundation in 1618. Most of his pictures have been engraved. Works : An- gel appearing in Desert to Hagar, Father of Tobias giving Orders to his Son, Angelic Salutation, Christ bearing his Cross, Descent from the Cross, Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalen, St. Gervais and St. Protais refus- ing to sacrifice to Jupiter, St. Paul preaching at Ephesus, Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, Apparition of St. Scholastica to St. Benedict, Mass of St. Martin of Tours, History of St. Bruno, St. Bruno examining the Plan of the Chartreuse Church in Home, Plan of the Old Chartreuse Church in Paris, Dedication of the Chartreuse Church, Birth of Cupid, Venus presenting Cupid to Jupiter, Cupid reprimanded by his Mother taking refuge with Ceres, Cupid receiving the Homage of the Gods, Cupid orders Mercury to announce his Power to the Universe, Cupid taking away Jupiter's Lightning, Phaeton asking Apollo for the Chariot of the Sun, Clio, Eu- terpe and Thalia, Melpomene, Erato and Polymnia, Urania, Terpsichore, Calliope, Rape of Ganymede, Reunion of Artists, In- stitution of the Eucharist (attributed), Christ at the Column (attributed), Louvre, Paris; Urania, Bordeaux Museum ; Family of To- bias thanking God after Departure of the Angel Raphael, Grenoble Museum ; Martyr- dom of St. Gervais and St. Protais, Faith, Religion, Lyons Museum ; Presentation in the Temple, Christ with Martha and Mary, Marseilles Museum ; Sacrifice of Manoah, Montauban Museum ; First Night of Wed- ding of Tobias, Montpellier Museum ; Rise of Aurora, Nantes Museum ; Woman in Sur- prise, Monk in Meditation, Rouen Museum; Christ Blessing, Brussels Museum ; St. Bru- no in his Cell, Berlin Museum ; Christ in the House of Martha, St. Louis of France at Mass, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Burial Scene, Stuttgart Museum ; Funeral of Cu- pid, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna ; Martyr- dom of St. Stephen, Exposure of Moses, Darius Hystaspes causing the Grave of Queen Nitocris to be opened, Birth of Mary the Virgin, Presentation of Christ in the Temple, Presentation of Mary in the Tem- ple, Death of tho Virgin, Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Bellier, i. 1132 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole fraii(;aise ; Jal, 780 ; Memoires in- c'dits, i. 147 ; Stothert, 87 ; Cat. du Louvre. LETHIKRE, (JUILLAUME GU1LLON, born at St. i A line, Guada- ' loupe, Jan. 10, 1760, died in Paris, April 21, 1832. Genre painter, pupil in Paris of Doy- en. His father, Guillon, being ashamed to have him work under the family name, he took that of Lethiere. He won the 2d grand prix in 1784, and after spending four years in Italy returned to Paris ; accompanied Lucien Bonaparte to Spain, and was engaged there several years in collecting pictures for him. In 1812-20 he was director of the French Academy in Rome ; in 1825 he became a member of the Institute, and soon after pro- 71