Napoleon in battle, an old man on horseback holding a child asks another child the way, a man carries a ladder or chair, a countryman carries a basket and two boys fight. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé.

  • Bellangé, H. (Hippolyte), 1800-1866.
Date:
1826-1831
Reference:
32888i
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view Napoleon in battle, an old man on horseback holding a child asks another child the way, a man carries a ladder or chair, a countryman carries a basket and two boys fight. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé.

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Napoleon in battle, an old man on horseback holding a child asks another child the way, a man carries a ladder or chair, a countryman carries a basket and two boys fight. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

Paris : Gihaut fréres ; London (22 Southampton Street) : S. Gans

Physical description

1 print : lithograph ; image 25 x 29 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Hy. Bellangé.

Notes

A sheet of sketches in one of four "séries de croquis" by Bellangé which Gihaut published between 1826 and 1831, each series containing six, twelve or twenty-four sheets. They show street life, historical figures, human interactions etc.

References note

Jules Adeline, Hippolyte Bellangé et son oeuvre, Paris: A. Quantin, 1880, p. 203
Jean Laran, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome deuxième, Paris 1937, pp. 94-98 (lists the "séries de croquis" by Bellangé but not the individual sheets)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 32888i

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