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LOUTIIERBOURG Marriage, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York ; Married for Convenieuce (1879); Wolf in the Fold (1880); General's Wife, Waiting (1881); Woman Reading (1882); Betrothed (1883) ; Hide and Seek (1884) ; Fencing Lesson (1885). LOUTHEEBOUEG, PHILIPPE JACQUES, born at Fulda, Hesse-Cassel, about 1740, died at Chiswiek, England, March 11, 1812. Landscape, marine, and battle painter, pupil of his father, a miniature painter, and in Paris in 1755 of F. Casano- va, battle painter; member of Academy, 1767 ; also Academy of Marseilles. Settled in England in 1771, became A.K.A. in 1780, and R.A. in 1781. Exhibited 155 works in Royal Academy. Works : Hagar and her Son after discovering the Spring (1771), Augers Museum ; Two Landscapes with Figures, Bordeaux Museum ; Landscape by Moonlight, Epinal Museum ; Shepherd with Donkey and Sheep, Nantes Museum ; Shep- herd and Flock, Orleans Museum ; Land- scape with Figures, Queen Victoria ; Lord Howe's Victory. Greenwich Hospital ; Cum- berland Lake, National Gallery, London ; Several Landscapes with Figures, Dulwich Gallery ; Avalanche in the Alps, Wyndham Collection ; The Departure, Interior of a Stable, Burat Collection ; Burning of Lon- don in 1666 (1797), Sir Thomas Baring; Destruction of Spanish Armada ; Siege of Valenciennes ; Huntsman meeting Lady in the Woods, Darmstadt Museum ; Storm at Sea (17G7), Oldenburg Gallery ; Tower on Seashore, Rocky Plateau with Herd and Herdsman, Schleissheim Gallery ; Surge on Rocky Coast with Shipwrecked People by an old Palace (1761), Museum, Vienna ; Landscape after Storm (17G5), Liechtenstein Gallery, ib. Ch. Blanc, Ecole fraucaise ; Bellier, i. 1063 ; Jal, 808 ; Larousse ; Cat. Nat. Gal. ; Sandby, i. 191 ; Peintre-graveur franyais, ii. (1861). LOUVRIER DE LAJOLAIS, JACQUES AUGUSTS GASTON, born in Paris; con- temporary. Landscape painter, pupil of Jules Noel and of Gleyre. L. of Honour, 1876. Works : September in Belgian Ar- dennes (1861); Winter Evening in the Sa- hara (1864); Willerzies in the Ardennes (1865); Summer Morning, Village of Saint Germain-sur-Morin, Willows of Villiers-sur- Morin (1875); For a Festival, Difficult Pas- sage (1876). LOVE AND DEATH, George Frederick }'altn, London ; canvas, H. 7 ft. 7 in. x3 ft. 9 in. Death, represented by a tall figure draped in white, whose back alone is seen, relentlessly forces his way into the portal of a house, thrusting back Love, who vainly seeks to bar his entrance, crushing his wings against the garlands of roses which grow at the side. Begun about 1869 ; exhibited at Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1877 ; at Me- tropolitan Museum, New York, in 1884-85. LOVE AND LIFE, George Frederick Wall*, London ; canvas, H. 7 ft. 2 in. x4 ft. Companion picture to Love and Death. Love, represented by the winged figure of a youth, is leading the way up a steep ascent and guiding over the rough places Life, a young girl, nude, who clings to him for support. The half-extended wings of Love shade the delicate figure of Life from the rays of the sun, and his footsteps can be traced by the daisies which have sprung up in his path. Painted in 1884 ; Grosvenor Gallery, 1885 ; replica at Metropolitan Mu- seum, New York, 1884-85. LOVE, EDUCATION OF. See Cupid. LOVE, GARDEN OF, Rubens, Madrid Museum ; canvas, H. 6 ft. 6 in. x 9 ft. 3 in. A company of ladies and gentlemen in a flower garden, near the entrance of a pal- ace, engaged in conversation and music ; several cupids are playing with the ladies, others are sporting in the air or among the flowers and fountains. The figures are por- traits of Rubens, Van Dyck, De Vos, and 106