Pilgrimage to Sacro Speco (1865), Benedictine Church at Subiaco; Girl Asleep (1865); Nymph and Bacchus (1866), Luxembourg Museum; Pius IX. at St. Peter's (1867); Woman Reclining (1868), Alexandre Dumas; Pascuccia (1869); Truth (1870), Luxembourg Museum; La Cigale (1872); Portrait of Prince Imperial (1874); Slave carrying Fruits on a Tray (1874), Ghent Museum; A Dream, Chloë (1875); Mary Magdalen (1876); Girl Laughing (1876), Amiens Museum; Chloë, Young Bride (1878); Diana Surprised (1879); La Fiammetta, Undine (1881); The Betrothed (1882); Psyche (1883); Aurora (1884); Laura (1885); Mignon, La Cigale, The Dew (La Rosée), Wm. Astor, New York; Mignon, W. H. Vanderbilt, ib.; Graziella, Miss C. L. Wolfe, ib.; Virginia, J. J. Astor, ib.; Sposa da Torrente, C. Vanderbilt, ib.; Fruit Girl, M. Graham, ib.; Truth, S. A. Coale, St. Louis; Morning Glory, La Cigale, D. Catlin, ib.; Evening, J. A. Scudder, ib.—Bellier, i. 966; Montrosier, ii.; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 504; Claretie, Peintres (1884), ii. 345; Art Journal (1883), 148.
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LEFÈVRE (Lefèbvre, Lefébure),
CLAUDE, born
at Fontainebleau,
Sept. 17,
1632, died in
London, April
26 (or in Paris,
April 5, ?), 1675.
French school;
portrait painter,
pupil of Lesueur
and Lebrun, having
begun to form himself by studying the
masterpieces at Fontainebleau. He painted
the king, the queen, and the principal persons
at court; was received into the Academy
in 1663, and subsequently went to England,
where his portraits were esteemed almost as
highly as those of Van Dyck. Works: Master
and Pupil, Male Portrait (1667), Louvre;
Portrait of Colbert (1663), three others,
Versailles Museum; Portrait of Olivier—Grand
Auditor of France, Metz Museum.—Argenville,
v. 177; Ch. Blanc, École française,
i.; Jal, 758; Mémoires inédits, i. 402.
LEFÈVRE, ROBERT, born at Bayeux,
April 18, 1756, died in Paris, Oct. 3, 1830.
Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Regnault;
best known by his portraits. He
became private painter to Louis XVIII.; L.
of Honour, 1814. Exhibited in many Salons
from 1791 to 1827. Works: Cupid disarmed
by Venus (1795), Louvre; Cupid
sharpening his Arrows; Abelard and Héloïse;
Phocion drinking the Hemlock; The
Cemetery (1827); Portraits of Napoleon I.
(3, one dated 1806), of Pauline Bonaparte
(1806), Marie Julie Clary, Queen of Naples
(1807), of Marshals Augereau and Oudinot,
Ministers Regnier (1808) and Savary (1814),
of General Tharreau, of the Engraver Denon,
the Poet Malherbe, Versailles Museum; of
General Bonaparte, Lisieux Museum; of
Louis XVIII., Colmar Museum; of Jan
Frans van Dael (1804), Antwerp Museum; of
Madame Letitia, of the Empresses Josephine
and Maria Louisa, Pius VII., Duchesse d'Angoûlème,
Charles X., etc.—Bellier, i. 968;
Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 233; Villot,
Cat. Louvre; Larousse.
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LEGILLON, JEAN FRANÇOIS, born at Bruges, Sept. 1, 1739, died in Paris, Nov. 23, 1797. Flemish school; landscape and interior painter, pupil at Rouen of Descamps; went in 1767 to Paris, where he definitely settled in 1782, having in the mean-*while repeatedly returned to it and to Bruges after a visit to Rome (1770), and between travels in Italy and Switzerland (1776 and 1779); was elected member of the French Academy in 1789, and soon after made court-painter. Works: Farm Interior, Bruges Academy; Ruined Barn with Women and Animals (1789); View of Freiburg; Grotto Interior with Animals Drink-
