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Hippolyte Lecomte (1781-1857) "Preparatory drawing for 'Battle of Salo'", 1835/36
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As our comparison images nr. 8-9 demonstrate, this relatively large (29 x 53 cm) ink drawing is a preparatory study for the oil painting "Battle of Salo in Italy on July 31, 1796" finished by Hippolyte Lecomte in 1836 (now on display in Chateau de Versailles). It is a typical graphic work by this author (see our images nr.10-14).
Hippolyte Lecomte (1781 Puiseaux - 1857 Paris) was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Pierre-Antoine Mongin. He regularly exhibited at the Salon between 1804 and 1847, and received a first class medal as a genre painter in 1808. His reputation was based above all on his historical landscapes. Apart from a few contemporary subjects, for example the "View of Lake Garda" (exh. Salon in 1806; now in Chateau de Malmaison) which shows the Empress Josephine abandoning her carriage in the face of enemy artillery, his subjects were taken from an idealized view of the Middle Ages. With Alexandre Millin-Duperreux (1764-1843) he formed a connection between historical landscape and the "Troubadour Style" (French artistic movement idealizing atmosphere of the Middle Ages). His works combine landscape and contrived light effects with the trappings of chivalry fashionable under the Consulate and the Empire. His reputation was enhanced by "Two Crusaders Leaving for the Holy Land" (Salon 1804) which was bought by Josephine for the gallery of Malmaison. Nevertheless his main achievement was the series of large scale paintings dedicated to military events of French Republic and First Empire, many of which today decorate the walls of Versailles.
Lecomte's wife, born Camille Vernet, was the sister of the painter Horace Vernet; the caricaturist Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard (better known as "J.J. Grandville") worked in Lecomte's studio. His son, Charles Emile Hippolyte Lecomte-Vernet, was also a noted painter.
Provenance: Antiques trade, Geneva, Switzerland
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Condition: good
Creation Year: 1835/36
Measurements: UNFRAMED:29,0x53,0cm/11,4x20,9in FRAMED: 36,3x62,0cm/14,3x24,4in
Object Type: Framed drawing
Style: Battle paintings
Technique: ink on paper
Inscription: -
Creator: Hippolyte Lecomte
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Creator Dates: 1781 Puiseaux-1857 Paris
Nationality: French
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