Léon Auguste Adolphe Belly (1827–1877) was a French
landscape painter.
Life
Belly was born at
St. Omer, in 1827. He studied under
Troyon, and in 1849 visited
Barbizon where he came under the influence of
Théodore Rousseau.
[
In 1850–1 he travelled to Greece, Syria, and Egypt. In 1853 he made his debut at the Paris Salon, exhibiting four landscapes of ]Nablus
Nablus ( ; ar, نابلس, Nābulus ; he, שכם, Šəḵem, ISO 259-3: ; Samaritan Hebrew: , romanized: ; el, Νεάπολις, Νeápolis) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located approximately north of Jerusalem, with a populati ...
and Beirut, and of the shores of the Dead Sea
The Dead Sea ( he, יַם הַמֶּלַח, ''Yam hamMelaḥ''; ar, اَلْبَحْرُ الْمَيْتُ, ''Āl-Baḥrū l-Maytū''), also known by other names, is a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank ...
, which attracted critical acclaim. In 1855–6 he visited Egypt, travelling up the Nile in the company of another painter, Edouard Imer. A second trip to Egypt in 1856 was largely spent making studies for his painting ''Pilgrims going to Mecca'', now in the Musée d'Orsay.[
As well as his paintings of Middle Eastern subjects he painted portraits and landscapes of Normandy and the Sologne throughout his career, and in 1867 bought land at Montboulan. He died in Paris in 1877.][
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Works
His paintings include:
*''Twilight in November''.
*''Fishers of équilles''.
*''The Desert of Nassoub''. 1857.
*''The Plain of Djyseh''.
*'' Pilgrims going to Mecca'', ("Pèlerins allant à la Mecque") 1861. Paris, Musée d'Orsay.
Gallery
File:Léon Belly - La dahabieh engravée, Égypte (1877).jpg , La dahabieh engravée
File:Ulysses And The Sirens by Léon Belly.jpg, Ulysses And The Sirens by Léon Belly
File:Léon Belly View of Shubra.jpg, View of Shubra
References
Sources
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Further reading
* Pouillon, F., ''Dictionnaire des Orientalistes de Langue Française,'' KARTHALA, 2008, p. 75
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French male painters
Landscape artists
French orientalists
Orientalist painters
People from Saint-Omer
1827 births
1877 deaths
19th-century French painters
19th-century French male artists