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 two Male portraits, Antwerp Museum; Last Judgment, Chapel of the Orphans, Antwerp; Christ on the Cross, Rotterdam Museum; Lady Reading, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; St. Norbert refuting the Heretic Tanchellinus, Adoration of the Magi, Archangel St. Michael, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Holy Family, Darmstadt Museum; do., Dresden Gallery; Venus and Cupid, Berlin Museum; Shrine with Annunciation, St. Mary's, Lübeck; Altar Shrine, Parish Church, Güstrow, Mecklenburg; Abraham's Sacrifice, Schwerin Gallery; Madonna, Oldenburg Gallery; do. nursing the Infant, Wiesbaden Gallery; Descent from the Cross, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Antiochus Epiphanes erecting Idol at Jerusalem, Day of Pentecost, Museum, Vienna; Adoration of the Magi, Harrach Gallery, ib.; Male and Female portrait, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Madonna, Historical Society, New York.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Dohme, 1i.; Immerzeel, v. 66; Kramm, iv. 1227; Kugler (Crowe), i. 232; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 664; Michiels, v. 66; vi. 445; Nagler, Mon., i. 56; Riegel, Beiträge, i. 10; Van den Branden, 102; Wauters, B. v. O. (Brussels, 1883); W. & W., ii. 515; Zeitschr. f. b. K., ii. 228; xix. 209.

ORLEY, JAN VAN, born in Brussels, Jan. 4, 1665, died Feb. 22, 1735. Flemish school; history and portrait painter, son of Pieter van Orley, a landscape painter; pupil of his uncle Hieronimus, a Franciscan friar. Works: Deliverance of St. Peter, St. Nicholas', Brussels; Allegory, Portrait of Philip II., City Hall, ib.; Adoration of the Magi, Dillighem Abbey, ib.; Resurrection, Church at Assche, Brabant.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Immerzeel, ii. 283; Michiels, x. 398.

ORLEY, RICHARD VAN, born in Brussels in 1663, died there, June 6, 1732. Flemish school; history painter, son of Pieter, pupil of Hieronimus van Orley. Works: Reëntry of Pope Innocent II. into Rome, Antwerp Museum; The Pierides metamorphosed into Birds, Juno transferring Eyes of Argus to Peacock's Tail, Ghent Museum; Preaching of St. John, City Hall, Louvain.—Immerzeel, ii. 283; Kramm, iv. 1229; Michiels, x. 394.

ORLOWSKY, ALEXANDER OSSIPOVICH, born in Warsaw in 1777, died in St. Petersburg, May 14, 1832. Genre, battle, and landscape painter, pupil of Norblin at the St. Petersburg Academy, then visited France, Germany, and Italy; he excelled as a battle painter; was made court painter in 1812. Member of St. Petersburg Academy. Works: Cossack attacked by Tiger (1811), Return from Hay Harvest, Mountainous Landscape (1811), Huntsmen Resting, Pastorale (2), Coast View (1809), Shipwreck (1820), Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

ORPHEUS, Camille Corot, private gallery, New York; canvas. In a landscape, with a large tree at right and a leafless sapling at left, Orpheus advances with arms raised and holding his lyre in his right hand. Painted in 1861.

ORPHEUS, DEATH OF, Émile Lévy, Luxembourg Museum; canvas, H. 6 ft. 3 in. × 4 ft. The death of Orpheus at the hands of the Thracian Mænads, whom his grief for the loss of Eurydice had led him to treat with contempt. He is lying, nude, in the foreground of a wood, surrounded by the infuriated women, excited by their Bacchanalian orgies, some of them in frenzied attitudes, others striking him with sickles and other weapons. Salon, 1866.

ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, Nicolas Poussin, Louvre; canvas, H. 4 ft. × 6 ft. 6 in. In a landscape, with the river Peneus in middleground, a city and mountains in background, Orpheus, seated at right, sings to his lyre, while three nymphs listen; near by, Eurydice, culling flowers, is stung by a serpent. Painted in 1659 (?). Collection of Louis XIV. Engraved by E. Baudet (1701); Desaulx and Bovinet in Musée