Hippolyte Bellangé
(France 1800–1866)
- Title
- Napoleon on the bridge at Arcola, from the suite Military memories of the Republic, the Consulate and the Empire 1833
- Year
- 1833
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Edition
- i of 2 states
- Dimensions
-
18.7 x 30.4cm image
- Credit
- Purchased 1990
- Accession number
- 296.1990.5
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
plate 4 'Military memories of the Republic, the Consulate and the Empire' 1833
Bellangé trained as a painter in the studio of Antoine-Jean Gros but he worked mainly as a printmaker in the newly fashionable medium of lithography. His prints enjoyed immense popular appeal and usually illustrate patriotic subjects celebrating the military triumphs of the recent Napoleonic past.
- Exhibition history (1)
-
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009.
