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

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, and while a youth, he produced several military drawings in

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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

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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

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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

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. File:Scène de bataille Chasseurs de la Garde.PNG, Battle scene, by Hippolyte Bellangé, at the

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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. File:Napoleon Empress dragoon by Bellange.jpg, '' Empress' Dragoon'', 1843

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* 19th-century French painters French male painters 1800 births 1866 deaths Painters from Paris Officers of the Legion of Honour Pupils of Antoine-Jean Gros French war artists 19th-century French war artists 19th-century French male artists 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub