Hippolyte Bellangé
# 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).

## 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.
