Hippolyte Bellangé

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).