Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé (1800 – 1866) was a French battle painter

War artist

A war artist depicts some aspect of war through art; this might be a pictorial record or it might commemorate how "war shapes lives." War artists have explored a visual and sensory dimension of war which is often absent in written histories or other accounts of warfare.- Definition and context:A...

. His art was influenced by the wars of the first Napoleon

Napoleon I

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

Lithography

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. He afterwards pursued his systematic studies under Gros

Antoine-Jean Gros

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, 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

Légion d'honneur

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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

Exposition Universelle (1855)

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. 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
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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
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• The Soldier's Return {in Leipsic Museum).
• The Return of Napoleon from Elba {in Salon of 1864, and Paris Exhibition, 1867
  Exposition Universelle (1867)
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• 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).