Hippolyte Bellangé

Hippolyte Bellangé
Born	Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé 17 January 1800 Paris
Died	10 April 1866(1866-04-10) (aged 66) Paris
Nationality	French
Known for	battle painter

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, and while a youth, he produced several military drawings in lithography. 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, 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).
• 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

• 
  Showing the troops, by Bellangé and Adrien Dauzats from 1862. Now at the Louvre.
• 
  Battle scene, by Hippolyte Bellangé, at the Art Institute of Chicago
• 
  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

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Bellange, Joseph Louis Hippolyte". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

External links

• Works by or about Hippolyte Bellangé at the Internet Archive