Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé (17 January 1800 – 10 April 1866) was a French
battle painter and printmaker. His art was influenced by the wars of the first
Napoleon
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, and while a youth, he produced several military drawings in
lithography
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. He afterwards pursued his systematic studies under
Gros, and with the exception of some portraits, devoted himself exclusively to battle-pieces. In 1824, he received a second class medal for a historical picture, and in 1834 the decoration of the
Legion of Honour
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, of which Order he was made an officer in 1861. He also gained a prize at the
Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855.
Selected works
*''Battle Scene'' (circa 1825)
*''The Entry of the French into Mons.''
*''The Day after the Battle of Jemappes.''
*''The Passage of the Mincio.''
*''The Battle of Fleurus'' (at
Versailles
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).
*''A Duel in the Time of Richelieu.''
*''The Battle of Wagram'' (at Versailles).
*''The Taking of Teniah de Muzaia'' (in
Salon of 1841, and now at Versailles).
*''Taking Russian Ambuscades'' (1857).
*Episode of ''the Taking of the Malakoff'' (1859).
*''The Two Friends — Sebastopol, 1855'' (exhibited in Salon of 1861, at London in 1862, and at Paris in 1867).
*''The Soldier's Farewell'' (in
Leipsic Museum).
*''Military Review Under the Empire (1810)'' (aka ''Showing the Troops''; 1862; in Louvre, not on display)
*''The Soldier's Return'' (in Leipsic Museum).
*''The Return of Napoleon from Elba'' (in Salon of 1864, and
Paris Exhibition, 1867).
*''The Cuirassiers at Waterloo'' (in Salon of 1865, and Paris Exhibition, 1867).
*''The Guard dies'' (in Salon of 1866, and Paris Exhibition, 1867 — his last work).
Gallery
File:Hippolyte Bellangé - Un jour de revue sous l’Empire - 1810.jpg, ''Showing the troops'', by Bellangé and Adrien Dauzats from 1862. Now at the Louvre
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.
File:Scène de bataille Chasseurs de la Garde.PNG, Battle scene, by Hippolyte Bellangé, at the Art Institute of Chicago
File:Napoleon Elite Gendarme by Bellange.jpg, '' Elite Gendarme from the Imperial Guard of the Grande Armée'', from the book, by Paul-Mathieu Laurent de l'Ardêche, ''Histoire de Napoléon'', 1843.
References
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19th-century French painters
French male painters
1800 births
1866 deaths
Painters from Paris
Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
Pupils of Antoine-Jean Gros
French war artists
19th-century war artists
19th-century French male artists
18th-century French male artists
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