Young woman in turkish jacket
Oil on canvas
RMN-Grand Palais, Magnin museum
French Orientalist Painter Léon Belly was born at St. Omer, in 1827. He took his first painting lessons from his mother. The artist, whose subjects are based on orientalism, has technically adopted the soft style of romanticism. After being admitted to the Polytechnic School, he chose painting as a career. He worked with history painter François Edouard Picot and landscape painter Constant Troyon. But it was primarily through his contacts and friendship with the Barbizon painters that he received his artistic training…
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