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