Bellange, Jacques

Bellange, Jacques a French painter and engraver, was born at Chalons about 1610, and studied under Claude Henriot, a painter of Nancy, and Simon Vouet. As a painter, little is known of him. The following are his principal religious plates: The Annunciation; The Holy Family, with St. Catherine and St. John; The Adoration of the Magi; The Resurrection of Lazarus; Christ bearing his Cross; The Dead Saviour lying on the Knees of the Virgin Mary; The Martyrdom of St. Luciat. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v. Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale. s.v.