Léon Belly

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Pilgrims on their way to Mecca , 1861, Musée d'Orsay .

Léon Auguste Adolphe Belly (born April 18, 1827 in Saint-Omer , † March 24, 1877 in Paris ) was a French painter.

Life

Léon Belly was born in 1827 to an artillery officer. He received his first drawing lessons from his mother. He then studied under François-Édouard Picot and Constant Troyon in Paris . In 1849 he visited Barbizon , where he was influenced by Théodore Rousseau .

In 1850/51 he made his trip to the Orient to Greece , Syria and Egypt as a draftsman for Caignart de Saulcy , who researched the topography and history of these countries. On this trip, Saulcy discovered the Schihan stele drawn by Belly. In 1853 he exhibited landscape paintings of Nablus and Beirut as well as the coast of the Dead Sea in the Paris Salon for the first time . In 1855/56 he visited Egypt, where he drove up the Nile in the company of another painter, Édouard Imer . He exhibited paintings from this trip in the salon and won a first class medal in 1861. In 1862 he exhibited at the World's Fair and was accepted into the Legion of Honor .

Known above all for his oriental paintings, he also painted portraits and landscapes of Normandy and Sologne .

Works (selection)

View of Shubra , 1862.
  • Pilgrims on their way to Mecca , 1861, Musée d'Orsay , Paris
  • Haymaking in Normandy , 1867, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
  • The ford of Montboulan in the Sologne , 1877, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
  • The citadel of Mokatan near Cairo , around 1856, Musée Bartholdi , Colmar
  • The Sirens , 1867, Musée de l'hôtel Sandelin , Saint-Omer
  • Black slave , 1858, Musée de l'hôtel Sandelin, Saint-Omer
  • View of the Nile , undated, Musée de l'hôtel Sandelin, Saint-Omer

Web links

Commons : Léon Belly  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Régine Hunziker-Rodewald , Robert Deutsch: The Shihan Stele Reconsidered in J. Elayi and JM Durand (eds.): Bible et Proche-Orient. Mélanges André Lemaire II (Transeuphratène 45). Paris, 2014, pp. 51–67.Retrieved online August 4, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Belly, Léon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Belly, Léon Auguste Adolphe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Omer , Pas-de-Calais department , France
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1877
Place of death Paris