(1841), Conscript Departing, Soldier Returning (1842), Battle of Corogne (1843), Battle of Ocaña (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 Guadarrama, Retreat 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 (1866).—Larousse; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 361; Meyer, Gesch., 473; Revue des d. Mondes, 1866, June 1; Kunst-Chronik, i. 62.
BELLANGER, CAMILLE FÉLIX, born
in Paris; contemporary. History painter,
pupil of A. Cabanel, and of Bouguereau.
Medal, 2d class, 1875. Works: Death of
Abel (1875), Luxembourg Museum; Cleombrotus
II., 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, Künst. Lex.,
iii. 363; Kunst-Chronik, xii. 618.
BELLAY, PAUL ALPHONSE, born in
Paris, March 22, 1826. Portrait and genre
painter, pupil of Picot and of Henriquel
Dupont; entered in 1851 the École 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,
Künst. Lex., iii. 368.
BELLE, ALEXIS SIMON, born in Paris,
Jan. 12, 1674, died there, Nov. 21, 1734.
Portrait painter, pupil of François de Troy;
member of Academy in 1703; held in great
honour by the French and Polish courts
and the Pretender James III. Works: Portraits
of Maria Leczinska and Son, of Dauphin
Louis, of the Sculptor Lerambert, of
himself, Versailles Museum; Portraits of
Louis XIV., his Queen, his Sisters, Duchess
of Orléans, Stanislaus Leczinska, Cardinal
Polignac.—Dussieux, Mémoirs inédits,
ii. 233; Jal, 187; Larousse; Meyer, Künst.
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
inspector of the Gobelins manufactory.
Works: Tobias Blessed by his Father
(1788); Ruth and Boaz (1791); Mars crowned
by Venus (1801); Allegory of Peace
(1817), Rouen Museum; Hagar in the Desert
(1819), Tours Museum.—Meyer, Künst.
Lex., iii. 369; Bellier.
BELLE, CLÉMENT LOUIS MARIE
ANNE, born in Paris, Nov. 16, 1722, died
there, Sept. 29, 1806. History painter, son
of Alexis Simon, pupil of his mother Marie
Nicole Horthemels and of François Lemoine;
member of Academy in 1761; professor in
1765 and rector in 1790. After 1755 Inspector
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,
Künst. Lex., iii. 369.
BELLE FÉRONNIÈRE, Leonardo da
Vinci, Louvre; wood, H. 2 ft. × 1 ft. 5-1/2
in. Bust, head three quarters, turned to
left, dressed in a red robe, ornamented with
embroidery and gold bands; hair confined
with a féronnière or frontlet. Long supposed
to be a portrait of the noted mistress
of Francis I., La Féronnière, so called either
because she was the wife of a rich feronnier
(iron-monger) or of a bourgeois named Jean
Féron, whose jealousy is said to have been
