artistic whims. He returned to Holland in 1639, first to Amsterdam, but settled afterwards in Haarlem, where he is said to have committed suicide in a fit of melancholy. Works: Travellers leaving Inn, Shepherds with Cow and Goats, Louvre, Paris; Halt before Inn, Brunswick Museum; Mountebank showing his Patent, Brawl among Italian Peasants, Rural Frolic, Roman City-Gate, Cassel Gallery; Landscape with Shepherds and Travellers crossing a Bridge (1657), Darmstadt Museum; Scenes from Italian Life (2), Monk distributing Food, Man busy with White Horse, Paying the Vintagers, Dresden Museum; Horseman conversing with Peasant, Musée Rath, Geneva; Horseman and Bathers by a Ruin, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Two Horses in a Stall, a Third being Saddled, Italian Porters playing under the Wall of a Fortress, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Guard-Room (1646), Oldenburg Gallery; Bandits playing Morra, National Gallery, Pesth; Travellers' Halt, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Smithy in Roman Ruin (1635), Italian Peasants' Frolic in a Grotto, Schwerin Gallery; Various Animals with Shepherds, Stuttgart Museum; Landscape with Ruins, Stockholm Museum; Peasants' Frolic, Boy waiting on Dismounted Peasant, Museum, Vienna; A Singer, Halt of Shepherds before Inn, Shepherds with Cows, Robber Scene at Night, Camp at Night, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Man giving three Dogs to Drink, Landscapes with Figures (2), Cottage with Peasants and Horses, Beggar Seated, Portrait of Himself, Uffizi, Florence.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 461; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Engerth, Belvedere Galerie, ii.—; Kramm, iii. 926; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 429; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 315; Sandrart, ii. 311.
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LABEO, TITIDIUS or ATEIUS, amateur painter at Rome, 1st century A.D. Pliny says (xxxv. 7 [27]) he prided himself on his small pictures, which only excited ridicule.—Brunn, ii. 306.
LABERGE, AUGUSTE CHARLES DE,
born in Paris, May 17, 1807, died there,
Jan. 26, 1842. Landscape painter, pupil of
Victor Bertin in 1824, and of Picot in 1827.
He painted nature in its subtlest details and
yet preserved unity of effect. Medal, 2d
class, 1831. Works: Diligence bringing
News of July Revolution (1831); The Country
Doctor (1832); Old Woman with a Sheep
(1836); Sunset (1839), Louvre; Milkmaid
with Pitcher of Milk; Forest of Virière;
Dog and Master; Interior of Château; Fisherman
with Fish.—Ch. Blanc, École française,
iii.; Larousse; Meyer, Gesch., 741.
LABORDE. See Delaborde.
LABOUCHÈRE, PIERRE ANTOINE,
born at Nantes, Nov. 26, 1807, died in
Paris, March 28, 1873. History painter,
pupil of Paul Delaroche, having first been
placed in a commercial house at Antwerp,
and visited the United States in 1827, China
in 1832, and having spent a year in Italy in
1836. Medals: 3d class, 1843; 2d class,
1846. Works: Ulrich von Hutten, Henry
of Saxony, Charles V. in London (1844);
Luther, Melanchthon, Pomeranus, and Cruciger
translating the Bible (1846); Richelieu
and Father Joseph (1847); Albrecht Dürer
painting Emperor Maximilian (1848); Geneva
Discussion (1850); Erasmus and Sir
Thomas More, Luther in Wittenberg, Charles
V. crossing the Elbe at Battle of Mühlberg
(1855); Luther at the Diet of Worms (1857);
Luther Praying; Incident of War in the
Cévennes (1864); Lucas Cranach painting
Luther's Portrait, Luther's Family at Prayer
(1865); Death of Luther, Charles V. his Son
Philip and Cardinal Granvelle in Conference
at Bruges (1866); Olympia Morata in Ferrara
(1869); Portrait of Guizot (1863); Penserosa
(1870).—Bellier, i. 861; Larousse.
LA BOUÈRE, TANCREDE DE (Antoine
Xavier Gabriel de Gazeau, Comte de La
Bouère), born at La Bouère, near Jallais
(Maine-et-Loire), April 1, 1801. Landscape
and architecture painter, pupil of Brune and
Picot; served in the army from an early
age, and took part in the campaigns of
