拉法尔热出生在纽约市，富有法国双亲，双语提高; 作为一个孩子，他和他的兄弟们用法语题为手工杂志乐轩。他对艺术的兴趣中开始了他在研究圣玛丽山大学在马里兰州[3]圣约翰学院（现在Fordham大学在纽约）。他最初打算学习法律，但他到巴黎的首次访问后这个改变，法国于1856年在城市艺术的刺激下，他以研究托马斯裳，并成为具有显着文学的人熟悉。拉法尔热还研究与画家威廉·莫里斯·亨特在罗得岛纽波特。

拉法尔热最早的图画和风景，从他在纽波特的研究，表现出明显的原创性，尤其是在颜色值的处理。许多拉法尔热的神话和宗教绘画，包括维吉尔，被称为罗得岛面积的森林其中拉法尔热叫维吉尔后“的神圣树林”执行的“天堂”。

他在日本艺术研究的先驱，它的影响被认为是在他的工作。在他的生活中，拉法尔热在西51街10号维持一个工作室格林威治村，也就是现在的网站的一部分尤金·郎学院在新学院大学。

1859年与1870年和他说明丁尼生的伊诺克雅顿和罗伯特·布朗宁的男人和女人。

在19世纪70年代，拉法尔热开始做壁画，成为流行的公共建筑以及教堂。他的第一个壁画是在完成三一教堂，波士顿，于1873年再后面他在装饰升天教堂（大祭坛）和圣 圣保罗教堂，纽约。对于明尼苏达州议会大厦在圣保罗，他在执行岁71四名代表法律史上具有半月形。他创建了一个基于正义在州最高法院大楼为主题的一系列类似马里兰州的巴尔的摩。他还参加了私人佣金来自富裕的顾客（如范德比尔特），并据说价值$ 15万在一个点上。
拉法尔热取得了亚洲和南太平洋广泛的旅行，这激发了他的绘画。他于1886年访问了日本和南海在1890年和1891年，尤其是花费时间和吸收的文化塔希提岛。亨利·亚当斯陪同他在这些旅行作为旅行伴侣。他于1890年9月访问了夏威夷，在那里他画上的风景名胜区瓦胡岛，前往夏威夷岛画一座活火山。

1892年，拉法尔热被带到作为与辅导员艺术学校的大都会博物馆，提供职业培训的学生在纽约市。他曾担任总统壁画画家国家协会 1899年至1904年

他学会了几种语言（古今），并且是在文学和艺术颇有心得; 由他培养的个性和反射谈话，他影响了很多人。虽然自然是提问者，他崇敬的宗教艺术的传统，保留了他的天主教信仰。

拉法尔热死在巴特勒医院，在普罗维登斯，罗得岛州于1910年安葬在绿荫公墓，在布鲁克林，纽约。他的论文，用那些特定的子女和孙辈在一起，由耶鲁大学图书馆举行。

Rafael Ge was born in New York, rich in French parents, bilingual improvement; as a child, he and his brothers in the French magazine entitled handmade music. His interest in art began his studies at St. Mary's College in Maryland mountain [3] (now Saint John Institute of Fordham University in New York). He originally intended to study law, but his first visit to Paris after this change, France in 1856 in the city of art under the stimulation of his research in Thomas sang, and has become the significant literary people familiar with. Rafael Ge also studied with painter William Morris Hunt in Rhode Island, Newport.
Rafael Ge's earliest paintings and landscapes, from his studies in Newport, showed obvious originality, especially in the treatment of color values. Hudolafarge's mythological and religious paintings, including Virgil, are known as the Rhode Island area of the forest, which is called the "sacred grove" after the name of the "heaven" of the execution of the "heaven" by the emperor, called the "heaven" by the emperor, called the """.
He was a pioneer in the study of Japanese art, and its influence was seen in his work. In his life, Rafael Ge in the West 51 street 10 maintained a studio in Greenwich Village, which is now the site of a part of Eugene Lang College at the new school.
In 1859 and in he explained the men and women of Tennyson's Arden and the men of Robert Browning, and in the year of 1870.
In 1870s, La Farge began to make murals, popular public buildings and churches. His first mural is on the completion of the 31 church, Boston, in 1873, behind him in the Church of the ascension (large decorative altar) and the Holy Church of St Paul, New York. The Minnesota State Capitol in St Paul, he has a half moon at the age of 71 in the implementation of four representatives of legal history. He created a series of Baltimore based Maryland based on justice in the state Supreme Court building. He also participated in a private commission from wealthy customers (such as Vanderbilt), and is said to be worth $150 thousand at a point.
Rafael Ge made extensive trips to Asia and the South Pacific, which inspired his paintings. In 1886 he visited Japan and the South China Sea in 1890 and in the year of 1891, especially the time spent and absorbed the culture of Tahiti island. Henry Adams accompanied him on these trips as a travel companion. He visited Hawaii in September 1890, where he painted a scenic spot in Oahu, heading to Hawaii to paint an active volcano.
In 1892, Rafael Ge was brought to the Metropolitan Museum of art as a consultant with the instructor to provide vocational training students in New York. He served as president of the National Association of mural painters from 1899 to 1904
He has learned several languages (ancient and modern), and has a lot of experience in literature and art. Although nature is a questioner, he revered the religious art tradition and retained his Catholic faith.
La Farge died at Butler hospital in Providence, Rhode Island on 1910, buried in the shade cemetery in Broolyn, New York. His paper, with those specific children and grandchildren together, held by the library of Yale University.