Education of Achilles (1769), Château of Vincennes; Visitation (1769), Bayonne Cathedral; Narcissus changed into the Flower (1771), Trianon; St. Louis rendering Justice under an Oak at Vincennes (1773); Piety of Fabius Dorso (1781), Chartres Museum; Resurrection (1781), Cathedral, Châlon-sur-Saône; Zeal of Mathathias (1783); Farm Yard, formerly in the Louvre; Spinning Woman, Portrait of a Young Painter, Orléans Museum; Female Head, Nantes Museum; The Sister, Historical Society, New York.—L'Art (1876), iv. 211; Bellier, i. 1013; Ch. Blanc, École française, ii.
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LE POITTEVIN, EUGÈNE (MODESTE
EDMOND), called Poidevin
born in Paris, July
31, 1806, died there, Aug.
6, 1870. Landscape and
genre painter, pupil of
École des Beaux Arts and
of Louis Hersent. Travelled
much on the Continent
and in England.
His first picture, The
Harvesters (1826), was
bought by the Duchesse de Berri. Medals:
2d class, 1831; 1st class, 1836; 2d class,
1848; 3d class, 1855; L. of Honour, 1843;
member of the Antwerp and Berlin Academies.
Works: Normandy Courtyard
(1830), Orléans Museum; The Thames, A
Stable (1831); Low Tide, On the Scotch
Coast (1833); Rescuing Scene (1834), Nantes
Museum; Battle at Wertingen—1805
(1835), Versailles Museum; Fishermen saving
a Wreck (1836), Leipsic Museum; Normandy
Fishermen, Flemish Cottage (1836);
Souvenir of Belgium, Return of the Fishermen
(1837); Ice, Behind the Downs, Red
Cap (1838); Shipwreck (1839), Amiens Museum;
Adrian van der Velde landing at
Blankenberg (1840); Gulf of Naples (1841);
Naval Battle at Embro—1346 (1841), Taking
of Baruth—1109 (1844), Versailles Museum;
Villa d'Este, Blue Grotto at Capri (1842);
Adriaan Brouwer painting Sign at an Inn
(1843), New Pinakothek, Munich; Van der
Velde sketching during a Battle, Fossoyeur
and his Children (1843); Stroke of the Spur
(1845); Education of Achilles (1846), Ravené
Gallery, Berlin; First Wound (1847);
No Smoke without Fire, Honeymoon (1848);
The Party-Wall (1849); The Shepherd and
the Sea, The Cask of Cider (1850); Pirates,
Friends of the Farm (1852); Right of the
Strongest, Monks of the Cape (1853); Winter
in Holland (1855); Winter, Hedge School
(1857); Dutch Pilots, Cottage in Normandy
(1859); Pleasures of Summer (1861), Cambrai
Museum; Country Doctor, Fishing on
the Ice, Future Painter of Still Life (1861);
Cinderella's Dream (1864); Monks of the
Cape (1865); Souvenir of Scheveningen
(1866); Shipwreck in Polar Sea (1867);
Delicate Attention, Gathering Potatoes
(1868); Breaking Ice (1868), Angers Museum;
Environs of Étretat (1870), formerly
in Luxembourg Museum; Fort de l'Œuf,
Marseilles Museum; Landscape, J. J. Astor,
New York; Seaside Life, C. H. Wolff,
Philadelphia; Dutch Market on the Ice,
W. Mason, Taunton.—Art Journal (1870),
308; Bellier, i. 1014; Hamerton, Painting,
52.
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LE PRINCE, A. XAVIER, born in Paris,
Aug. 28, 1799, died at Nice, Dec. 24, 1826.
Genre and landscape painter; studied Cuyp,
Adrian van de
Velde, and nature.
Works:
Embarkation of
Cattle at Honfleur (1823), Pass of Susten
in Switzerland (1824), Louvre; Landscape,
