LAENEX Ladder (1847) ; Vision of Zachariah (1850), Rochefort Museum ; Music (1852) ; Diana and Eudymion (1857) ; Job (1859) ; Loves of the Angels (18G2) ; Orpheus (18CG) ; Hope (1868). In fresco : Three Episodes in Life of St. Remy, St. Clotilde's, Paris. Bellier, i. 8(57 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), iii. 18G; (18G2), xiii. 367, 383; Meyer, Gcsch., 405 ; Larousse. LAEXEN. See Lamen. LA FAEGE, JOHN, bora in Xew York in 1835. Landscape and figure paint- er, decorator, glass painter, and sculptor, pupil of William M. Hunt. Since 185G-57, ' w hen lie fi r s t went to Europe, ho has repeatedly crossed the At- lantic. His illustrations of Browning's poems, published in 1859, were followed by many figure, still-life, and landscape pieces, and these by a great deal of decorative work. Latterly he has devoted himself almost ex- clusively to glass painting. His chief work in sculpture is the King family monument at Xewport, R. I. (1878). Member of So- ciety of American Artists. Elected N.A. in 18(19. Studio in Xew York. Works: St. Paul (18(51) ; Various Flower Pieces (18(50- (55) ; Altai-piece for St. Peter's Xew York (18(53) ; Xew England Pasture Land (18GG) ; The Last Valley (18G7) ; Boy and Dog (18G8) ; The Golden Age (18(59) ; Trinity Church Decorations Boston (187G); Chan- cel of St. Thomas' Church Xew York (1877) ; Battle Window Harvard Memorial Hall (1880) ; Staircase Windows William H. Vanderbilt's House (1881) ; Ceilings for Cornelius Vanderbilt's House (1882) ; Apple Orchard in Spring (1884). Art Journal, (1885), 261. LAFAYE (Lafaist), PROSPER, born at Mont-Saint-Sulpice (Youne), in 180G. His- tory and genre painter, pupil of Couder ; unsuccessful in painting landscapes, he tried history and genre with better result, but since 1850 has confined himself chiefly to glass decoration. Medal, 2d class, 1835. Works : Village Drum (1833) ; Violence of Xogaret and Colonna toward Pope Boni- face VIII. (1834) ; Battle of Bouvines (1835) ; Louis XIV. departing for the Con- quest of Franche Comte, Cholera in Paris (1837) ; Song of Departure (1838) ; Bat- tle of Ceramo (1839), Versailles Museum ; Holbein at Court of Henry VHI. (1839) ; Samson and Delilah ; Bedroom of Louis XIV. at Versailles (1840) ; Battle of Ascalon ( 1841), Versailles Museum ; Masked Ball, Brother and Sister (1843) ; The Labourer (1844) ; Hall of the Crusaders, The Unem- ployed (1845) ; Josephine (1848); Interior in Style of Louis XIV., Ravene Gallery, Berlin ; Child's Slumber (1880) ; Low Mass at Saiut-Gervais (1881); Complernentaires, Expulsive Seizure (1882) ; Battle of For- migny 1450, Taking of Gray, do. of Chateau Sainte Anne in 16G8, Six Copies of Battles by Martin, Versailles Museum. Bellier, i. 869, LAFOX, EMILE (JACQUES), born at IVrigueux (Dordogne), Jan. 27, 1817, died in Feb., 188G. History and portrait painter, pupil of Gros and Delaroche. Medal, 3d class, 1843 ; L. of Honour, 1859. Works : Communion of the Virgin (1843) ; Christ oil the Waters (1844) ; Holy Family (1846) ; Death of St. Francis Xavier, do. of St. Pe- ter of Verona (1848); Denis Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris (1849), Rodez Museum ; Episode in Massacres in Syria (1861) ; Louis XVII. and Simon in the Tower of the Tem- ple (1863) ; Saint Jean de Dieu Founder of the Order of that Xame (1865), Christ among the Doctors (1867), Luxembourg Museum ; Kiss of Judas (1875, 1877) ; The Magdalen at the Sepulchre, The Orphans (1880). Bellier, i. 871; Meyer, Gesch., 288. LAFOXD, ALEXANDRE, born in Paris, April 24, 1815. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Ingres. His portraits are energet-
