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.
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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
