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  • iam the Conqueror (1853); Le Sueur among

the Carthusians (1855), Luxembourg Museum; Harvester's Breakfast, On the Threshold, St. Elizabeth of France (1857); Robbers, Riding Lesson (1859); Good News, Gathering Carnations, Coming out of School (1861); The Infant, St. Louis washing the Feet of the Poor (1865); Little Inquisitive (1866); Pia dei Tolomei, Little Girl of Picardy (1869); Baptism of Clovis, St. Clotilde helping the Poor (1870); Louis IX. and his Three Favourites, Hymn to St. Cecilia (1874); Young Housekeeper (1875); Angel bearing a Censer (1876); Candle of the Madonna (1877), Luxembourg Museum; Going to Matins (1877); Old Man, Old Woman (1878); Triumph of Flora (1879); Servant of the Poor, The Truant (1880); The Question (1881); The Farm's Washing, For the Soup (1883); Pilgrims (1884); Day of the Poor at Nauroy (1885). Has also painted many portraits and mural pictures in chapels of the Madonna at St. Pierre du Gros Caillou, SS. Peter and Paul at St. Quentin, and of St. Denis in the Church of the Trinity, Paris.—Bellier, i. 920; Bitard, 779; Ch. Blanc, Artistes de Mon Temps, 473; Larousse; Meyer, Gesch., 636.



LAUGÉE, GEORGES, born at Montivilliers (Seine-Inférieure); contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, son and pupil of preceding, and pupil of Pils and Henri Lehmann. Medal, 3d class, 1881. Works: Repast of Mowers (1877); Gleaner Woman of Picardie (1878); Beet-Diggers in Picardie, Picardie Soup (1879); In Autumn, The Widow (1880); In October, Poor Blind Man (1881); Under Way to Harvest (1882); First Steps, The First-born (1883); Rest (1884); Gleaners, Three Ages (1885).


LAURATI, PIETRO. See Lorenzetti.




LAURENS, JEAN PAUL, born at Fourquevaux (Haute-Garonne), March 28, 1838. History painter, pupil of Léon Cogniet and of Bida. Though occasionally defective in colour, his pictures are dramatic in style and spirited in execution. Medals: 3d class, 1869; 1st class, 1872; of honour, 1877; L. of Honour, 1874; Officer, 1878. Works: Death of Cato at Utica (1863); Death of Tiberius (1864); Hamlet (1865); After the Ball (1866); Christ and the Angel of Death, Beaucaire's Supper (1867); Voice in the Desert (1868), Orléans Museum; Christ healing a Lunatic, Herod and his Daughter (1869); Jesus driven from the Synagogue, St. Ambrose teaching Honorius (1870); Death of the Duc d'Enghien (1872), Alençon Museum; replica, Frank Work, New York; Pope Formosa and Stephen VII. (1872); The Fishing at Bethsaida (1873), Toulouse Museum; St. Bruno refusing the offerings of Count Roger of Calabria (1874), Church of Notre Dame des Champs; The Cardinal, Martha (1874); Excommunication of Robert the Pious (1875), Luxembourg Museum; The Interdict (1875), Havre Museum; Francis di Borgia before the Body of Isabella of Portugal (1876); Death of General Marceau (1877), Ghent Museum; Death of St. Geneviève (1878), Pantheon, Paris; Release of those Immured at Carcassonne (1879), Luxembourg Museum; Honorius (1880), D. O. Mills, New York; The Examination (1881); Last Moments of the Emperor Maximilian (1882); Pope and Inquisitor, Walls of the Holy Office (1883); Vengeance of Urban VI. (1884); Faust (1885); Portrait of himself, Uffizi, Florence.—Bellier, i. 923; Montrosier, iii.; Claretie, Peintres (1884), ii. 273; London Daily News, May 15, 1878.