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• fessor in the École des Beaux Arts. Works:

Woman of Cana at the Feet of Christ (1784), Angers Museum; Nero causing Abduction of Junia (1790), Montpellier Museum; Brutus condemning his Sons to Death (1812), Death of Virginia (1828), Louvre; The Preliminaries of Loeben (1806), Versailles Museum; View of the Plain of Rome and of the Dominican Church (1807); View of St. Peter's and the Vatican (1807); View of the Villa Medici (1807); Æneas and Dido surprised by a Storm (1819), Amiens Museum; View of the Chateau of Genezano (1819); Venus Anadyomene (1819); St. Louis visiting a Plague-*stricken Man near Carthage (1822), Bordeaux Museum; Æsculapius fed by a Goat (1822); Romulus and Remus fed by the Wolf (1822); Coast of England near Brighton (1822); Felucca in Danger near Genoa (1822); Foundation of the College of France by Francis I. (1824), Collége de France; Heroic Firmness of St. Louis at Damietta (1827), Council of State; Philoctetes climbing the Rocks of Lemnos (1827), Chamber of Deputies; Mary Magdalen at the Feet of Christ, St. Roch, Paris; Homer Singing, Judgment of Paris, both in London; Phorbus releasing Œdipus when a Child, Mass in the Catacombs, Departure of Adonis, Death of Adonis, Duke d'Alba, Madrid; Portraits of Empress Josephine and of Élise Bonaparte, Versailles Museum.—Bellier, i. 1035; Ch. Blanc, École française; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Larousse.

LEU, AUGUST (WILHELM), born in Münster, March 24, 1818. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Schirmer; visited Norway (1843, 1847), Switzerland (1847, 1865, 1871), Italy (1862-63), and Tyrol (1873); settled in Düsseldorf, and in 1882 removed to Berlin. Member of Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam, and Brussels Academies; royal professor; gold medals in Berlin; Belgian Order of Leopold. Works: Waterfall in High Plain of Norway (1844), Königsberg Museum; Norwegian Waterfall with Fir-Wood (1849), Christiania Gallery; Sogne Fjord (1849), Bremen Gallery; Waterfall in the Mountains (1847), Hardanger Fjord (1851), Swiss Landscape (1851), Great Norwegian Landscape (1852), Gallery Ravené, Berlin; Norwegian Waterfall, Vienna Museum; High Plain in Norway (1857), Königsberg Museum; The High Göll near Berchtesgaden (1859), Stuttgart Museum; Engstler Alp; The Königsee with the Watzmann, Gotha Museum; The Dachstein; View on Chiem Lake; Eiger and Mönch; View of Capri; View near Chiavenna; Sunset near Nice; Handeck in Switzerland; Anacapri; Sogne Fjord (1874), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; German Wood Landscape, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Coast of Monaco, Stettin Museum; Lake Oeschinen in Berne (1876), National Gallery, Berlin; Rocca Bruna near Nice (1876).—D. Kunstbl. (1855), 316; (1856), 407; (1857), 105; (1858), 197; Müller, 335.

LEUCIPPIDES, RAPE OF. See Castor and Pollux.

LEUTZE, EMANUEL, born at Gmünd, Würtemberg, May 24, 1816, died in Washington, July 18, 1868. History painter; taken to America as a child by his parents, who settled in Philadelphia, where he was first instructed by John A. Smith; went in 1841 to Düsseldorf, and studied under Lessing. Also studied in Munich, Venice, and Rome; visited America in 1851 and settled there permanently in 1859, living alternately in New York and Washington. Elected N.A. in 1860. Works: Hagar and Ishmael, Indian looking towards Setting Sun, Columbus before Council of Salamanca (1841); Columbus' Third Return from America (1842); Sir Walter Raleigh's Farewell of his Wife (1842); Cromwell at his Daughter's Deathbed (1842); King Ferdinand taking the Chains from Columbus (1843); First Landing of Norsemen in America, Pennsyl-