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Odysseus and the Sirens

Léon Auguste Adolphe Belly, a French landscape painter, was born at St. Omer, in 1827. He studied under Troyon and Rousseau. He spent much of the latter part of his life in the East, which furnished him with many subjects. He died in 1877. His best works are:
View of Shubra, 1862.

* Twilight in November.
* Fishers at Equilles.
* The Desert of Nassoub. 1857.
* The Plain of Djyseh.
* Pilgrims going to Mecca. 1861. {In the Luxembourg Gallery.) (pictured)
* The Banks of the Nile.
* Approach to an Egyptian Village.
* The Dead Sea. 1866.
* The Nile — near Rosetta.
* Montauban in Sologne. 1877. (In the Luxembourg Gallery)

References

This article incorporates text from the article "BELLY, Léon Auguste Adolphe" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1889 publication now in the public domain.

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