Hippolyte Bellangé

Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé (1800 – 1866) was a French battle painter. 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 an 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. Amongst his works are:

• 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).
• 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).

References

This article incorporates text from the article "BELLANGE, Joseph Louis Hippolyte" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.