Ladder (1847); Vision of Zachariah (1850), Rochefort Museum; Music (1852); Diana and Endymion (1857); Job (1859); Loves of the Angels (1862); Orpheus (1866); Hope (1868). In fresco: Three Episodes in Life of St. Remy, St. Clotilde's, Paris.—Bellier, i. 867; Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), iii. 186; (1862), xiii. 367, 383; Meyer, Gesch., 405; Larousse.
LAENEN. See Lamen.
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LA FARGE, JOHN, born in New York in
1835. Landscape
and figure painter,
decorator,
glass painter, and
sculptor, pupil of
William M. Hunt.
Since 1856-57,
when he first
went to Europe,
he has repeatedly
crossed the Atlantic.
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 exclusively
to glass painting. His chief work
in sculpture is the King family monument
at Newport, R. I. (1878). Member of Society
of American Artists. Elected N.A. in
1869. Studio in New York. Works: St.
Paul (1861); Various Flower Pieces (1860-65);
Altarpiece for St. Peter's—New York
(1863); New England Pasture Land (1866);
The Last Valley (1867); Boy and Dog
(1868); The Golden Age (1869); Trinity
Church Decorations—Boston (1876); Chancel
of St. Thomas' Church—New 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 (Yonne), in 1806. History
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
Nogaret and Colonna toward Pope Boniface
VIII. (1834); Battle of Bouvines
(1835); Louis XIV. departing for the Conquest
of Franche Comté, Cholera in Paris
(1837); Song of Departure (1838); Battle
of Ceramo (1839), Versailles Museum;
Holbein at Court of Henry VIII. (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 Unemployed
(1845); Josephine (1848); Interior
in Style of Louis XIV., Ravené Gallery,
Berlin; Child's Slumber (1880); Low Mass
at Saint-Gervais (1881); Complémentaires,
Expulsive Seizure (1882); Battle of Formigny—1450,
Taking of Gray, do. of Château
Sainte Anne in 1668, Six Copies of Battles
by Martin, Versailles Museum.—Bellier, i.
869.
LAFON, ÉMILE (JACQUES), born at
Périgueux (Dordogne), Jan. 27, 1817, died
in Feb., 1886. History and portrait painter,
pupil of Gros and Delaroche. Medal, 3d
class, 1843; L. of Honour, 1859. Works:
Communion of the Virgin (1843); Christ on
the Waters (1844); Holy Family (1846);
Death of St. Francis Xavier, do. of St. Peter
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 Temple
(1863); Saint Jean de Dieu—Founder
of the Order of that Name (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.
LAFOND, ALEXANDRE, born in Paris,
April 24, 1815. Genre and portrait painter,
pupil of Ingres. His portraits are energet-
