Charles Alphonse Paul Bellay
French, 1826 - 1900
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Charles-Alphonse-Paul Bellay was a French painter and engraver.
He was mainly an engraver and watercolor artist.
Not much is known about his life, except that he also worked in Italy where he spent a long time. He is remembered for his engravings of Stella and Pascuccia, two common women from Lazio portrayed in 1864 probably in Anticoli Corrado, a town in the Aniene valley known for being the site of several art studios in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Bellay - who won the Rome Prize for engraving in 1852 - often used allegorical figures as his subjects (such as the 1876 work Victory with a woman's face framed by a garland of leaves) and many of his works were published by the Parisian publisher Adholpe Goupil (1806-1893) who was particularly interested in the art of engraving.
His works were exhibited regularly from 1861, including engravings derived from paintings by Raffaello Sanzio.
He also produced a portrait of Alexandre Dumas in 1878.