in a Garden, Love Couples with Birds' Nests, Girls Bathing, Kitchen Interior, Similar Subject, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Infancy, Youth, Manhood, Age, National Gallery, London; and many in private collections in England and France.—Bellier, i. 895; Ch. Blanc, École française; Dohme, 3; Houssaye, Gal. du xviii. Siècle, i. 263; Jal, 734; Larousse; Lejeune, Guide, i. 219; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Wedmore, 183; Wurzbach, 24.
LANDELLE, CHARLES, born at Laval
(Mayenne), June 2, 1821. Genre painter,
pupil of Delaroche and of Ary Scheffer,
whom he vainly tried to approach in depth
of expression. Executed decorative works
in the Elysée Palace and in St. Sulpice,
Paris, and painted many portraits. Medals:
3d class, 1842; 2d class, 1845; 1st class,
1848; 3d class, 1855; L. of Honour, 1855.
Works: Fra Angelico (1842); Elegy, Charity
(1844); Virgin and Holy Women at
Tomb (bought by State); Fleurette abandoned
by Henry IV. (1845); Little Gypsies
(1846); Young Egyptian Woman (1847);
St. Cecilia (1848); The Republic (1849);
Christ with St. Peter and St. John, St. Veronica
(1850), Pau Museum; The Antiquary;
Beatitudes (1852), Laval Museum; Renaissance
(1853), Louvre; The Virgin Resting
(1855), St. Germain l'Auxerrois, Paris; Jewess
of Tangiers; Armenian Woman, Finland
Girl (1857), M. Achille Fould; Portrait of
Admiral Baudin (1857), Versailles Museum;
Presentiment of the Virgin (1859), Luxembourg
Museum; Girl with Birds (1859);
Emperor and Empress at Glass Works of
St. Gobain; Captive Jewesses in Babylon
(1861), Montauban Museum; Procession of
the Cross at Brest (1861); Idleness (1863);
Awakening (1864); Meditation (1865); Armenian
Woman, Fellah Woman, Prison in
Tangiers, Child of Aïsaouï (1867); Moorish
Woman (1868); Mountaineer of Aragon
(1869); Velleda (1870); The Almeh (1872);
Samaritan Woman, Young Servian Gypsy
(1873), Nantes Museum; Revery at Sixteen
(1874); Angel of Purity, Angel of Grief
(1875); Salmacis (1877); Ismenis (1878);
Messenger of Storms, Siren (1879); Nymph
of Fontana, Venetian Woman (1880); Woman
of Siloam in Jerusalem, Young Fellah
Woman in Cairo (1881); Naiad, Woman of
Boghari (1882); Woman of Bethlehem,
Carpet Bazaar, Cairo (1883); Country of
Golden Fruit (1884); Modern Law, Little
Orphan Girl (1885); Roman Girl, Virlandese
Girl, Circassian Girl, Robert Hoe, New
York; Angel's Watch, Israel Corse, ib.;
Dolce far niente, C. P. Huntington, ib.;
Greek Girl, G. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Egyptian
Fellah Girl, C. H. Wolff, Philadelphia;
Neapolitan Girl, W. B. Bement, ib.; Paul
and Virginia, B. Wall, Providence; Egyptian
Girl of Thebes, J. W. Garrett, Baltimore.—Bellier,
i. 896; Bitard, 765; Revue des Deux
Mondes, June, 1871; Gaz. des B. Arts
(1878), xvii. 156; Larousse; Hamerton,
Painting in France, 62; Meyer, Gesch., 367,
389.
LANDI, GASPARO, Cavaliere, born at
Piacenza in 1756, died in Rome, Feb. 24,
1830. History and portrait painter, pupil
in Rome of Pompeo Battoni and Corvi, and
studied the great masters of the 16th century,
acquiring a certain purity of style and
excellent colouring. Won the first prize at
the Academy of Parma in 1781; at an early
age became director of the section for
painting in the Academy of San Luca in
Rome, and in 1817 president. He is looked
upon as one of the founders of modern
Italian painting, and is famous for his portraits,
especially that of Canova. Works:
The Three Marys at the Tomb of Christ,
Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Burial of the Virgin,
Assumption, Piacenza Cathedral; Tobias
and Sarah; Christ at Golgotha; Œdipus
in Colonos; Mary Stuart leaving France;
Portrait of Canova, Bergamo Gallery; The
Three Marys at the Sepulchre, Florence
Academy.—Goethe, Winkelmann, ii. 154;
Nouv. Biog. univ., xxix. 348.
LANDO, LORENZ DI. See Vecchietta.
LANDON, CHARLES PAUL, born at
Nonant (Orne) in 1760, died in Paris, March