1823 in Spain, when he was decorated with the L. of Honour, and of 1830 in Africa, after which he took up painting, visited the East, and studied for several years in Rome; also spent two years in Spain. Several of his works, mostly Eastern subjects, have been acquired by the State. Works: Autumn Morning (1833); Pontine Marshes, Sacred Isle of Philæ—Nubia (1838); Ruins of Karnak at Thebes (1841); View from Villa d'Este at Tivoli (1842); Harvest in the Campagna (1844); Wind of the Desert in Plain of Memphis (1846); Villa near Rome (1864); Interior of the Generalife at Granada, La Antigua at Valladolid (1866); Sorrento (1867); The Generalife and the Alhambra (1868); Environs of the Alhambra (1870); Theatre of Taormina in Sicily (1869 and 1870); Sunset in Algiers (1833), Desert of Suez (1840), Factory of Poussin (1842), Valley of the Tombs (1848), View of the Alhambra (1867), Angers Museum.—Bellier, i. 861; Vapereau (1880), 1049.
LA BOULAYE, PAUL DE, born at
Bourg; contemporary. Genre and portrait
painter, pupil of Bonnat. Medal, 3d class,
1879. Works: The Sabbath (1876); Beggar
Woman (1877); Adoration of the Shepherds
(1878); At the Sermon (1879), Luxembourg
Museum; Women selling Fowl
(1880); Leaving Church (1881); Mould
Seller in Brussels (1883); A Baptism in
Bourbonnais, Mother Auberger (1884); The
Rosary (1885).
LACHENWITZ, SIGMUND, born at
Neuss in 1820, died in Düsseldorf, June 25,
1868. Animal painter, pupil of Düsseldorf
Academy. Works: Horses pursued by a
Bear (1848); Lion Family surprised by Tigers
(1850); Buffaloes attacked by Panthers;
Eagles fighting in the Air; Reindeers
pursued by Wolves; Marauders with
Stolen Herd; Young and Old (1861), Königsberg
Museum; Cavalry Fight (1866);
Scenes from Reynard the Fox.—Blanckarts,
16; Kunst-Chronik, iii. 160.
LACROIX, GASPARD JEAN, born in
Turin, Jan. 24, 1810, died in Paris, Oct. 26,
1878. Landscape painter, pupil of Corot;
a talented and careful painter. Medals:
3d class, 1842; 2d class, 1843, 1848. Works:
View of Bonnelles, Campagna at Rome
(1841); Catalonian Fishermen at Port Vendres
(1842); Excursion on the Water (1844);
Miser who has lost his Treasure (1847); 3
Views of Bougival (1848); Women Bathing,
Erigone (1850); Mercury putting Argus to
Sleep (1852); Banks of the Morin (1853);
Green Path near Meaux (1855); Daphnis
and Chloë (1861); Hay-Stacks, The Banks
of the Marne (1863); View of Romainville
(1865); The Bell-Flower (1868); A Landscape
(1869); Environs of Palaiseau, Woman
Bathing (1870); Landscape (1870); Landscape
(1872); 2 Views of the Park of Gigoux
at Palaiseau (1873); The Villa Gigoux,
Avenue des Maronniers (1874); View at
Palaiseau (1876); At the Potteries (1877).—Bellier,
i. 866; Larousse, x. 41.
LAECK, P. VAN, flourished probably at
Utrecht about 1640. Dutch school; landscape
and figure painter in the manner of
Poelenburg, although his treatment is hasty
and his figures are coarse in conception.
Works: St. Magdalen in a Grotto (1638),
Mentz Museum; Italian Landscape with
Venus punishing Cupid (1640).—Bode,
Studien, 332.
LAEMLEIN, ALEXANDRE, born at Hohenfeld,
Bavaria, Dec. 9, 1813, died at Pontlevoy
(Loire-et-Cher), April 25, 1871. History
painter, pupil of Regnault and Picot;
went to Paris when ten years old, became a
naturalized Frenchman in 1835. He restored,
in 1825-39, with Alaux, the Primaticcio
Gallery at Fontainebleau. Medals:
3d class, 1841; 2d class, 1843, 1859. Professor
at the School of Design in 1855.
Works: John the Fearless, Philip the Hardy,
Raymond Dupuy—first Grand-Master of the
Order of St. John of Jerusalem (1842),
Philippe d'Artois, Marshal Boucicault, Versailles
Museum; Chastity of Joseph (1839);
Awakening of Adam (1841); Tabitha revived
by St. Peter (1843); Charity (1846),
formerly in Luxembourg Museum; Jacob's
