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ORLEY two Male portraits, Antwerp Museum ; Last Judgment, Chapel of the Orphans, Antwerp ; Christ on the Cross, Rotterdam Museum ; Lady Reading, Stiidel Gallery, Frankfort; St. Norbert refuting the Heretic Tancbellinus, Adoration of the Magi, Archangel St. Mi- chael, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Holy Fam- ily, Darmstadt Museum ; do., Dresden Gal- lery ; Venus and Cupid, Berlin Museum ; Shrine with Annunciation, St. Mary's, Lii- beck ; Altar Shrine, Parish Church, Gils- trow, Mecklenburg ; Abraham's Sacrifice, Schwerin Gallery ; Madonna, Oldenburg Gallery ; do. nursing the Infant, Wiesbaden Gallery ; Descent from the Cross, Hermit- age, St. Petersburg ; Antiochus Epiphanes erecting Idol at, Jerusalem, Day of Pente- cost, Museum, Vienna ; Adoration of the Magi, Harrach Gallery, ib. ; Male and Fe- male portrait, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib. ; Madonna, Historical Society, New York. Ch. Blanc, Ecole fla- mande ; Dohme, li. : I in m e r z e e 1 , v. 60 ; Kramm, iv. 1227 ; Kug- ler (Crowe), i. 232 ; Kunst - Chronik, xviii. 664 ; Michiels, v. GO ; vi. 445 ; Nagler, Mon., i. 50 ; Riegel, Beitriige, i. 10 ; Van den Brauden, 102 ; Wauters, B. v. (). (Brussels, 1883) ; W. & W., ii. 515 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, ii. 228 ; xix. 20!). ORLEY, JAN VAN, born in Brussels, Jan. 4, 16G5, 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. Nicho- las', Brussels ; Allegory, Portrait of Philip II., City Hall, ib. ; Adoration of the Magi, Dilligheni Abbey, ib. ; Resurrection, Church at Assche, Brabant. Ch. Blanc, Ecole fla- mande ; Immerzeel, ii. 283 ; Michiels, x. 398. ORLEY, RICHARD VAN, born in Brus- sels in 1G63, died there, June 6, 1732. Flem- ish school ; history painter, sou of Pieter, pupil of Hieronimus van Orley. Works : Reentry of Pope Innocent H into Rome, Antwerp Museum ; The Pierides metamor- phosed 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 OSSIPO- VICH, born in Warsaw in 1777, died in St. Petersburg, May 14, 1832. Genre, battle, and landscape painter, pvipil 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, Pas- torale (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, Emile Levy, Luxembourg Museum ; canvas, H. 6 ft. 3 in. x 4 ft. The death of Orpheus at the bauds of the Thracian Maenads, 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 fren- zied attitudes, others striking him with sickles and other weapons. Salon, 18G6. ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, Nicolas Fuussin, Louvre ; canvas, H. 4 ft. x 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 Musee 370