LAGYE cession ; Brussels Museum ; ert Hoe, New York Paran Stevens, ib. ; Madrid Museum. L' Art (1877), xi. 25, 137, 235 ; Bellier, i. 877 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole fraueaise, ii. ; Jal, 721) ; Lejeune, Guide, iii. 142. LAGYE, VICTOR, born in Antwerp; con- temporary. Genre painter, pupil of Leys ; takes his subjects principally from life of 14th and 15th centuries. Lives in Antwerp. Order of Leopold. Works : Antiquary ; Mother laying her Child into Cradle ; Sculp- tor at Close of loth Century ; Bridal Pro- Gypsies ; Archer ; Enchantress, Flemish Interior, Rob-
- Fair Amanuensis, Mrs.
Historiographer, H. R. Bishop, ib. ; Departure, H. L. Dousman, St. Louis. Miiller, 316 ; Riegel, Wand- malerei in Belg., 42. LAHORIO, LEON, born in Russia in 1827. Landscape painter, pupil of St. Pe- tersburg Academy, where he won the first prize in 1850 ; then studied in Italy, and afterwards became professor in St. Peters- burg. Works : Well near Rocca di Papa ; Castello Fusano ; View near Sorrento ; Shore on Black Sea ; Landscape in the Caucasus (1870). LA HYRE. See Hire. LAIA, painter. See Tula. LAIRESSE, GERARD DE, the elder fit Liege in 1640, buried at Amster- dam, July 28, 1711. Dutch school ; history and allegory painter, pupil of his father, Renier de Lairesse, and of Bartholet Fle- mael, but formed himself chiefly after Nicolas Poussin, whence sometimes called the Dutch Poussin. Emi- grated early to Holland, and lived succes- sively at Bois-le-Duc, Utrecht, The Hague (where mentioned as member of the guild in 1684), and Amsterdam ; having become blind in 1690, he gathered around him a ; ,1.0
- circle of artists and patrons of art, to whom
ho communicated his ideas ; thus originated the work published by his son, "Hct Groot Schilderboek." His three brothers, Ernst, Jakob, and Jan, were all painters, and his | sons, Abraham, Gerard, and Jan, were bis ' pupils and imitators. Works : Institution of the Eucharist, Cleopatra landing at Tar- sus, Dance of Children, Choice of Hercules, Louvre ; Two Allegories, Mars, Venus and Cupid (2), Diana and Endymion, Seleucus ceding his Wife and Sceptre to Antiochus, Amsterdam Museum ; Death of Pyrrhus, Brussels Museum ; Achilles recognized by Ulysses, Bacchus consoling Ariadne, Apothe- osis of William III., Hague Museum ; Bac- chus and Pomona with Nymphs, Basle Mu- seum ; Bacchanale, Musi'e Hath, Geneva ; Achilles among Daughters of Lycomedes, Venus Mourning, Dancing Children, Smithy of Vulcan, Bacchanal, Ulysses and Calypso, Ariadne and Bacchus, Rape of Sabines, Brunswick Gallery ; Baptism of Achilles, Satyr and Nymphs, Berlin Museum ; Achilles dragging the Body of Hector, Bacchus with Bacchantes, Death of Germanicus, Male Por- trait, Cassel Gallery ; Alexander and Roxana, Jeroboam's Pagan Altar, Copenhagen Gal- lery ; Adoration of the Magi, Darmstadt Museum ; Apollo and the Muses on Parnas- sus, Festival of Priapus, Fauns in a Land- scape, Dresden Museum ; Allegorical Repre- sentations of an Artist's Life (2), Old Pinako- thek, Munich ; Woman and Four Children, Priestess Offering, Hermitage, St. Peters- burg ; Dido caressing Cupid in the Guise of Ascanius, Ulysses and the Sirens, Minerva restoring to Ulysses his Form, Solomon offer- ing to the Idols, Artist's Portrait, Schleiss- heim Gallery ; Seleucus ceding his Wife and Throne to Antiochus Soter (1673, replicas in Carlsruhe and Oldenburg Galleries), Hunt- ing Booty of Diana, Satyrs and Nymphs in Jolly Combat (1687), Children's Scene in Italian Park, Children's Round-Dance, Schwe- rin Gallery ; Venus and Cupid, Stuttgart Museum ; Artillery Post, Soldiers and Wom- en Carousing, Neptune and Amphitrite
