LAFOND ic and expressive, and carefully executed. Paints also on porcelain. From 18G3 to 1874 he was director of the School of Art in Limoges. Medals, 2d class, 1857, 1861, 1863. Works : Flagellation (1848) ; Inte- rior (1852) ; Clouds, Man Drinking (1853) ; St. Sebastian (1855); Fall of the Rebel Angels (1857) ; Orpheus charming Wild Beasts, Grandmother (1859) ; Head of an Old Man (1861) ; Dancing Fauns (1867) ; Adoration of Shepherds (1872) ; Good Sa- maritan (1875) ; Deluge (1876) ; Raising of Lazarus (1879) ; Evening (1880) ; Poor Man (1881) ; The 14th of July (1883). Bellier, i. 872 ; Larousse. LAFOND, CHARLES NICOLAS RA- PHAEL, born in Paris in 1774, died there Jan. 16, 1835. History painter, pupil of Barthelemi, Suvoc, audReguault. Medals : 3d class, 1804 ; 2d class, 1808 ; 1st class, 1817 ; L. of Honour, 1831. Works : Good Samaritan (1804) ; Empress Josephine sur- rounded by Children (1806) ; Death of Ja- cob in Egypt (1808); Clemency of Napoleon towards Mile, do Saint-Simon (1810 J, Ver- sailles Museum ; Saul (1814) , Dijon Muse- um ; JEueas on Mount Ida (1817) ; Taking of Moutereau-Faut-Yonue by Charles VII. (1819), Meliiu Museum ; Numa Pompilius and the Nymph Egeria (1819), Versailles Museum ; Episode in War in Spain, Waking of Psyche (1819); Due de Bordeaux present- ed to the People (1822) ; Chaste Susanna, Love and Discord contemplating their Work, Homer blind and reduced to Beggary (1824); Annunciation, Sacred Heart of Christ, Ap- parition to St. Clotilde, St. Louis in Prayer before Battle (1824), Chapel of Princess de Conde, Temple, Paris ; Prodigal Son ; Christ on Calvary (1831), Ministry of Public Works, Paris ; Eve seeing herself in a Wave, Sappho singing her Last Verses, Psyche Abandoned, Reflexions (1831). Bellier, i. 871. LA FOSSE, CHAELES DE, born in Paris, June 15, 1636, died there, Dec. 13, 1716. French school ; history painter, pu- pil of Chauveau and Lebruii up to 1658 ; then studied in Home after Raphael, and for three years in Venice. On his return he painted i:i St. Eustache, the choir and roof paintings in the Assump- tion, and ex- ecuted frescos in Versailles
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(XXxtf-TW w ^-^te ^21r>$ and Meudon. Went to Lon- don in 1689 and 1690 ioi_ decorate the country house of Lord Montagu, and after his return ex- ecuted (1692-1707) paintings in the cupola of the Church of the Invalides. Member of the Academy in 1G73, professor iu 1674, director in 1G99, rector in 1702, chancellor in 1715. Works : Moses saved from the Waters, Annunciation, Marriage of Virgin, Rape of Proserpine (1673), Triumph of Bac- chus, Sacrifice of Iphigenia, Louvre ; Christ served by the Angels in the Desert, Hope and Temperance, Faith and Charity, Gren- oble Museum ; Christ giving the Keys to St. Peter, Lille Museum ; Aristotle in Love, Montpellier Museum ; Assumption, Scenes of the Deluge, Nancy Museum ; Deification of JEucas, Venus asking Arms of Vulcan, Jupiter overcoming Callisto, Nantes Muse- uni ; Pan and Syrinx, Daphne fleeing from Apollo, Jethro presenting his Daughter Zipporah to Moses, Orleans Museum ; Coro- nation of the Virgin, Sunrise, Rouen Mu- seum ; Clytia changed into a Sunflower, Apollo and Thetis, Annunciation, Trianon Palace ; Resurrection, Apsis of Chapel, Ver- sailles Museum ; Apollo on his Chariot accompanied by the Seasons, Augustus causing the Port of Myceue to be built, Vespasian directing the building of the Coliseum, Coriolanus raising the Siege of Rome, Alexander restoring to Poms his Lands, Salon d'Apollon, ib.; Jason and the Argonauts landing at Colchis, Alexander at the Lion-Hunt, Sacrifice of Iphigenia, Salle de Diane, ib. Bellier, i. 873; Ch. Blanc, Ecole Franyaise, i. ; Jal, 724 ; La-
