BELLANGEK (1841), Conscript Departing, Soldier Re- turning (1842), Battle of Corogne (1843), Battle of Ocaiia (1845), Versailles Museum ; Trumpeter's Farewell, Kellermann's Charge at Marengo (1847), Rouen Museum ; The Gallant Hussar (1849); Good Priest, Mayor's Harangue (1850) ; Passage of the Guad- arrama, Eetreat from Russia, Review after the Battle (1852), Emperor of Russia ; Charge of Cuirassiers (1853) ; Battle of Alma, Night- Watch (1855) ; Capturing a Russian Ambush (1857), Farewell Salute, Battle in Streets of Magenta, Assault on Malakoff (1859), Marseilles Museum ; Two Friends (1861); Incident of Battle of Magenta (1863) ; Cuirassiers at Waterloo, Marching Past after Victory (1865) ; Beaten Squadron of Cavalry, The Guard Dies, his last work (18G6). Larousse ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 361 ; Meyer, Gesch., 473 ; Revue des d. Mondes, 1866, June 1 ; Kunst-Chro- nik, i. 62. BELLANGER, CAMELLE FELIX, born in Paris ; contemporary. History painter, pupil of A Cabanel, and of Bouguereau. Medal, 2d class, 1875. Works: Death of Abel (1875), Luxembourg Museum ; Cleom- brotusll., King of Sparta (1876); Bacchante (1877) ; Angel at the Tomb (1877) ; Scene from Hell, after Dante (1878); Scene from Dante (1879) ; Idyl, Young Faun (1880); Twilight and Morning (1881) ; Coucou ! (1882); Cupid Asleep, A Florist (1883) ; Au Luxembourg (1885). Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 363; Kunst-Chronik, xii. 618. BELLAY, PAUL ALPHONSE, bom in Paris, March 22, 1826. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of Picot and of Heuriquel Dupont ; entered in 1851 the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and received in 1852 the Roman prize for engraving. Since 1861 exhibited first Italian genre subjects ; then mostly water colour copies after Raphael. Medals in 1866, 1867, 1869 ; L. of Honour, 1873. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 368. BELLE, ALEXIS SIMON, born in Paris, Jan. 12, 1674, died there, Nov. 21, 1734. Portrait painter, pupil of Franyois de Troy ; member of Academy in 1703 ; held in great honour by the French and Polish courts and the Pretender James HI. Works : Por- traits of Maria Leczinska and Son, of Dau- phin Louis, of the Sculptor Lerambert, of himself, Versailles Museum ; Portraits of Louis XIV., his Queen, his Sisters, Duch- ess of Orleans, Stanislaus Leczinska, Car- dinal Polignac. Dussieux, Memoirs inedits, ii. 233 ; Jal, 187 ; Larousse ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., 369. BELLE, AUGUSTIN LOUIS, born in Paris in 1757, died there, Jan. 12, 1841. History painter, son and pupil of Clement Louis B. Succeeded his father in 1806 as I inspector of the Gobelins manufactory. Works : Tobias Blessed by his Father (1788); Ruth and Boaz(1791); Mars crown- ed by Venus (1801); Allegory of Peace (1817), Rouen Museum; Hagar in the Desert (1819), Tours Museum. Meyer, Ktinst. Lex., iii. 369 ; Bellier. BELLE, CLEMENT LOUIS MARIE ANNE, bom in Paris, Nov. 16, 1722, died I there, Sept. 29, 1806. History painter, son of Alexis Simon, pupil of his mother Marie Nicole Horthemels and of Fran<;ois Lemoine ; member of Academy in 1761 ; professor in 1765 and rector in 1790. After 1755 In- spector of the Gobelins manufactory, Paris. Works: Purification of the Churches after the Desecration of 1722 (1759), St. Merry, Paris ; Archangel Michael as Victor (1767), Soissons Cathedral ; Christ, Parliament- Building, Dijon ; Return of the Prodigal Son, Lille Museum. Larousse ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 369. BELLE FERONNIERE, Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre ; wood, H. 2 f t. x 1 ft. 5 in. Bust, head three quarters, turned to left, dressed in a red robe, ornamented with embroidery and gold bauds ; hair confined with a feronniere or frontlet. Long sup- posed to be a portrait of the noted mistress of Francis I., La Feronniere, so called either because she was the wife of a rich feronnier (iron-monger) or of a bourgeois named Jean Foron, whose jealousy is said to have been 128
