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Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic Wars
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Author:  Christian Hecht [ Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic Wars
Good day gentleman
I'm sure that all here are interested in paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic Wars, besides the delight of watching such paintings they surely proof as a versatile source for many other things, I for example use them also as wallpapers on my PC as they make a remarkable background.

Within the huge mass of pictures on the web it's a nightmare to point to a specific picture(starting with possible copyright problems), even when simply aiming for the best version others might search for a different version , so for now I will rather post the painters who did paintings that cover the mentioned eras, that way it should be easy for all interested to search for pictures of these painters and pick out whatever they need.


Averyanov, Alexander (sometimes written as Alexander Averianov)
I found no wiki entry for him but he seems to be born in 1950 so a rather "modern" arist, simply google and you will find a lot stuff from him.

Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint
Known for his His "Grenadier de Waterloo" from 1817, with the motto "La Garde meurt et ne se rend pas" (a famous phrase frequently attributed to Cambronne, but which he never uttered, and which cannot, perhaps, be traced farther than to this lithograph by Charlet).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Toussaint_Charlet
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nicolas-Toussaint_Charlet

Cogniet, Léon
Know for "La Garde nationale de Paris part pour l’armée, Septembre 1792" (The Paris National Guard on its way to the Army, September 1792).
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Cogniet[/url]
[url]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Léon_Cogniet[/url]

Dawe, George
Was an English portraitist who painted 329 portraits of Russian generals active during Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dawe
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:George_Dawe
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Paintings_by_George_Dawe_in_Pushkin_museum
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Portraits_in_the_Military_Gallery_of_the_Winter_Palace

Detaille, Édouard
He was regarded as the "semi-official artist of the French army" and friend of Horace Vernet. He studied under the famous military painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier. Known for his "Vive L'Empereur" from 1891.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édouard_Detaille[/url]
[url]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Édouard_Detaille[/url]

Flameng, François
Known for his "Napoléon Studying Military History". Became offical War painter of >France in the First World War
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Flameng[/url]
[url]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:François_Flameng[/url]

Gérard, François
Very liked by the French side for his "The Battle of Austerlitz, 2nd December 1805" and the many portrait of the French leading figures of the Empire.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Gérard[/url]
[url]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:François_Gérard[/url]

Gros, Antoine-Jean
Famous for "Bonaparte at the pont d'Arcole" from 1801, "Bataille d´Aboukir" from 1806 and The Battle of Eylau from 1808.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Jean_Gros
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Antoine-Jean_Gros

Lejeune, Louis-François
Joined the French Army and received his baptism of fire in the battle of Valmy in the same year, he became aide-de-camp to Marshal Berthier in 1800, a post he retained until 1812 and in which he took an active part in practically all of the Napoleonic campaigns. He brought to the rank of général de brigade and was allowed to leave the Army in 1813, afterwards he devoted himself to painting and made an important series of battle-pictures based on his experiences.
Best known for his masterwork depicting the battle of Borodino or "Battle of Moscow, 7th September 1812" from 1822.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-François_Lejeune[/url]
[url]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Louis-François_Baron_Lejeune[/url]

Meissonier, Jean-Louis-Ernest
A remarkable one from him that everyone surely knows is his "1814. Campagne de France" that JTS used as title picture for the "Campaign 1814" game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis-Ernest_Meissonier
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jean-Louis-Ernest_Meissonier

Northen, Adolph (also know as Adolf Northen, Adolf Northern and Adolph Northern)
As the wiki notes, know for his "Preussischer Angriff"(Prussian Attack) and "Napoleons Rückkehr von Moskau"(Napoleon's retreat from Moscow).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Northen
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Adolf_Northern

Philippoteaux, Henri Félix Emmanuel
Was a French artist. He was born in Paris, France, studied art at the studio of Leon Cogniet, and is lnown for the large number of works chronicling the rise and successes of Napoleon Bonaparte, including a portrait of Napoleon in his regimental uniform and a group of paintings of French victories in the Napoleonic Wars. Also know for his painting in the form of a cyclorama, a type of large panoramic painting on the inside of a cylindrical platform designed to provide a viewer standing in the middle of the cylinder with a 360° view of the painting.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Félix_Emmanuel_Philippoteaux[/url]
[url]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Henri_Félix_Emmanuel_Philippoteaux[/url]

Rava, Giuseppe
No wiki entry for him, but he was born on July 16, 1963 in Faenza(Italy) and is known for his military and historical artwork. His art is used for many things, illustrating books(Osprey books for example), cover art for games and for miniature & model kit boxes.

Salter, William
Was an English portrait painter of the 19th century. His best known work was a painting of 83 people at a banquet in 1836 organised by the Duke of Wellington to celebrate their victory at the Battle of Waterloo. The painting is called the The Waterloo Banquet 1836 and today is at Apsley House.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Salter_(artist)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:William_Salter

Thompson, Elizabeth
One of the few female painters to achieve fame for history paintings, especially military battle scenes.
Known for her "Scotland Forever!" from 1881 that shows the Scots Greys charge at the Battle of Waterloo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Thompson
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Elizabeth_Thompson
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/elizabeth-southerden-thompson-butler

Vernet, Horace
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (30 June 1789 – 17 January 1863) was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects.
A nice one from him is about the famous battle of Valmy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Vernet
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Horace_Vernet

Willevalde, Bogdan
Likely know for his huge paintings of the battles of Kulm, Leipzig, Fère-Champenoise and Paris.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdan_Willewalde
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bogdan_Villevalde

Woodville, Jr., Richard Caton
Best known for being one of the most prolific and effective painters of battle scenes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, for exampel "Maréchal Ney à Eylau", "Poniatowski's Last Charge at Leipzig" and "Life Guards Charging At The Battle Of Waterloo"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Caton_Woodville,_Jr.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Richard_Caton_Woodville,_Jr.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/search/painted_by/richard-caton-woodville

So that's it for know, if anyone has other noteworthy painters please post them and I put them into this first post so we get a good and huge list as resource for all interested people.

PS List has expanded considerably, many thanks to all the contributors.
Author:  SLudwig [ Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic
William Salter (1804 – 22 December 1875) was an English portrait painter of the 19th century.[1] His best known work was a painting of 83 people at a banquet in 1836 organised by the Duke of Wellington to celebrate their victory at the Battle of Waterloo.[2] The painting is called the The Waterloo Banquet 1836 and today is at Apsley House.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Salter_(artist)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... iam_Salter
Author:  David Guegan [ Thu Nov 27, 2014 12:34 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic
A few more painters :

Horace Vernet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Vernet

Nicolas Charlet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Toussaint_Charlet

Antoine Gros
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Jean_Gros

Louis-François Lejeune
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Fran ... is_Lejeune

Léon Cogniet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Cogniet

Edouard Detaille
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Detaille

François Flameng
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Flameng
Author:  S_Trauth [ Thu Nov 27, 2014 5:05 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic
Detaille's Vive l Empereur is in the Art Gallery of NSW -I got a photo of it somewhere -paid a visit to it some years ago (this gallery also has a pretty famous painting of Rorke's Drift as well by another well known artist).

I will have to dig this one out of one of my hard drives and post it somewhere.
Author:  Cezary Pluskwa [ Thu Nov 27, 2014 5:23 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic
:frenchsalute:
Polish historical painting.

Alphabetical by Name.

Click on the portrait.

Watch his paintings.
:frenchvive:

http://www.wawel.net/malarstwo.htm
Author:  SLudwig [ Thu Nov 27, 2014 9:40 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic
Napoleonic paintings are within their wider collections....

Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson)

(3 November 1846 – 2 October 1933) was a British painter, one of the few female painters to achieve fame for history paintings, especially military battle scenes, at the end of that tradition. She was married to Lieutenant General Sir William Butler, and is still often referred to as Lady Butler. Some of her most famous military scenes come from the Napoleonic Wars, but she covered most major 19th-century wars and painted several works showing the First World War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Thompson

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... h_Thompson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings ... son-butler



Richard Caton Woodville, Jr.

Richard Caton Woodville (7 January 1856 – 17 August 1927) was an English artist and illustrator, who is best known for being one of the most prolific and effective painters of battle scenes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ca ... dville,_Jr.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... dville,_Jr.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings ... -woodville



George Dawe

George Dawe (6 February 1781, St James's, Westminster – 15 October 1829, Kentish Town) was an English portraitist who painted 329 portraits of Russian generals active during Napoleon's invasion of Russia for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace. He relocated to Saint Petersburg in 1819, where he won acclaim for his work from the artistic establishment and complimentary verses by Pushkin.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... eorge_Dawe

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... ter_Palace

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... kin_museum
Author:  Einar Jon Masson [ Thu Nov 27, 2014 10:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic
Thank you Gentlemen
This is truly a treasure.
Author:  Christian Hecht [ Fri Nov 28, 2014 7:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic
Thanks guys, added the noted artist to the first post.
Too bad the special French chars seems to break the URL function, so for now some have to be manually copied to the browser to be used.

@Cezary Pluskwa
Is there any specific artist I should take a look at?
Unfortunately its rather hard to check for Napoleonic material with all the text in Polish.
Author:  SLudwig [ Fri Nov 28, 2014 7:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic
Include all links please, not just the Wiki ones... :)
Author:  David Guegan [ Fri Nov 28, 2014 10:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic
Another one:

Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... terloo.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... Rivoli.jpg


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... es_-_4.jpg
Author:  Christian Hecht [ Sat Nov 29, 2014 10:45 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic
@Scott
OK hope you don't mind that I excluded the "Portraits_by_George_Dawe" link as that link can be found on the "Category:George_Dawe" link I put in.
BTW Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson) is a nice catch, a woman doing history paintings that alone is something noteworthy especially in the time she lived.

@David
I have also let out the specific picture links and instead use the link to the Wikimedia cxommans, that should give the user all what Wiki has to offer on Philippoteaux.
BTW Philippoteaux is an interesting artist with his "cyclorama" paintings.
Author:  S_Trauth [ Sat Nov 29, 2014 6:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic
Man... finally found it ... see my post from 27/11/2014.

Image
Author:  Christian Hecht [ Sat Nov 29, 2014 9:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic
Does it just look like or is it really so big?
Seeing it in a museum makes a very different impression, alone that frame already seems to underline the scene that is captured in the picture.
Author:  S_Trauth [ Sat Nov 29, 2014 9:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic
No it is really that big -- the trooper in the foreground is either life-size or even maybe a little bigger. I don't have the actual dimensions but the paintings off to the side -those are about a meter wide (iirc) -it has been awhile.
Author:  David Guegan [ Sat Nov 29, 2014 10:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Paintings of the French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic
S_Trauth wrote:
No it is really that big -- the trooper in the foreground is either life-size or even maybe a little bigger. I don't have the actual dimensions but the paintings off to the side -those are about a meter wide (iirc) -it has been awhile.


There is a nice little article about this painting and a painting of Detaille painting it >>here<<
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