Vive L'Empereur (painting)

Vive L'Empereur
French: Vive L'Empereur charge du quatrième hussards à la bataille de Friedland, 14 juin 1807, English: Long live the Emperor - Charge of the Fourth Hussars at the Battle of Friedland, June 14, 1807
Artist Edouard Detaille
Year 1891 (1891)
Medium Oil on canvas
Movement Academic art
Subject An officer of the 4th Hussars of France
Dimensions 445.0 cm × 512.5 cm (175.2 in × 201.77 in)[1]
Condition Restored
Location Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Accession 4560
Website www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/4560/

The Vive L'Empereur painting was made retrospectively by Edouard Detaille in 1891, based upon the cavalry charge of the 4th Hussars during the Battle of Friedland.[1] The battle itself happened on 14 June 1807, some 41 years before his birth.[2][3]

History

The painting was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1893, where it still remains.[3] In 1959 the painting was damaged severely by water, but was restored in the 2000s.[4]

Museum

The Vive L'Empereur is hung next to Portrait of Edouard Detaille by Basile Lemeunier, which shows Edouard Detaille painting Vive L'Empereur.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Vive L'Empereur - Edouard Detaille - Google Arts & Culture". Google Cultural Institute. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "Édouard Detaille". Google Cultural Institute. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Vive L'Empereur, (1891) by Edouard Detaille :: The Collection :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  4. 1 2 Meares, Joel. "Art gallery's famous Vive l'Empereur meets its maker, a century on". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
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