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 the primal cause of the king's death. Believed by some to be the portrait of Lucrezia Crivelli, mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, painted by Leonardo about 1497; and by M. Delécluze a likeness of Ginevra Benci. But the picture is called by Père Dan in his Trésor des Merveilles de Fontainebleau (1642), portrait of a Duchess of Mantua, and it has lately been shown that Leonardo really painted (1500) a portrait of Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, Marchioness of Mantua. As the features are wholly unlike those of Isabella in Titian's picture in the Vienna Museum, La Belle Féronnière may be considered still unidentified.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 61; Clément, 214; Rigollot, Hist. des Arts, i. 297; Heaton, Leonardo, 15, 268; Acad. (1870), i. 123; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Mündler, Essai, 123; Ch. Blanc, École florentine.

Belle Féronnière, Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre.

BELLE JARDINIÈRE. See Madonna Belle Jardinière.

BELLÉE, LEON (Le Goaësbe) DE, born at Ploermel (Morbihan); contemporary. Landscape painter, pupil of Montfort. Paints sometimes marine-views. Works: Washing at Low Tide, Clearing in the Woods, Charcoal-Burners' Hut (1874); Fleet of Sardine Fishermen (1875); Cutting in the Woods, In the Woods with Hoar-Frost (1879); Fish-Pond in Forest of Aigne (1880); Before a Storm, Autumn (1881); Fishing in Arctic Regions at Hammerfest, Town of Karasjok in Lapland (1882); Pierced Rock in Calvados, Pond in May (1883); Life in the Forest, Swamp in Isle of France (1884); Hoar Frost (1885).—L'Art (1875), i. 281.

BELLEGAMBE, JEAN (Jehan), born at Douai, about 1475 (?), died there after 1533. Flemish school; history painter, and one of the best masters in Flanders of that period; enjoyed great fame, especially in his native city, and was styled le maïtre des couleurs. Works: Polyptych with Trinity and eight other pictures (about 1511), Notre Dame, Douai; two altarwings with Glorification of the Virgin (1526), Museum, ib.; Adoration of Infant Christ (1528), Preparing for Crucifixion, Cathedral, Arras; Altar with Last Judgment, Berlin Museum; Adoration of the Magi (?), Madrid Museum.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 126; Förster, Denkmale, x. iii. 7; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 371; Michiels, iv. 150; W. & W., ii. 525.

BELLEL, JEAN JOSEPH, born in Paris, Jan. 26, 1810. Landscape painter; pupil of Ouvrié; sent his first picture to the Salon of 1836. In 1856 he visited Algeria, and has drawn many of his subjects from there. He is noted for his charcoal drawings. Medal, 1st class, 1848; L. of Honour, 1860. Works: View of the Close of St. Mark in Rouen (1836); Christ and the Samaritan Woman, Environs of Clermont, Gorge of Atrans, View of Massa (1846), Duchess of Orleans; Daphnis and Chloe (1853); Flight into Egypt (1855); Street in Constantine (1857); Landscape with Ruins, The Halt, Oasis in the Sahara (1859); Oasis of Tolga, Road from El-Kantara to Bathna (1861), Ch. Evrard, Paris; Solitude or Road from Medeah to Boghar (1863), Luxembourg Museum; Environs of