- 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.
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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-
