Hippolyte Lecomte
Hippolyte Lecomte (28 December 1781, Puiseaux – 25 July 1857, Paris) was a French painter best known for large scale historical paintings and ballet designs. His wife, born Camille Vernet, was the sister of the painter Émile Jean-Horace Vernet. His son, Émile Vernet-Lecomte, was also a noted painter.
Also recorded as M. Hyppolite Lecomte · M. Lecomte
Hippolyte Lecomte
Hippolyte Lecomte · The Cleveland Museum of Art · L. E. Holden Fund · CC0
- Birth Name
- Hippolyte Lecomte
- Born
- 28 December 1781
- Died
- 26 July 1857
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages
- French
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Hippolyte Lecomte (28 December 1781, Puiseaux – 25 July 1857, Paris) was a French painter best known for large scale historical paintings and ballet designs. His wife, born Camille Vernet, was the sister of the painter Émile Jean-Horace Vernet. His son, Émile Vernet-Lecomte, was also a noted painter.
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The caricaturist Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, better known as "J.J. Grandville", worked in Lecomte's studio.
A Spanish barber playing the guitar. Coloured lithograph by C. de Lasteyrie after Hippolyte Lecomte., by Hippolyte Lecomte
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![A family caught in an avalanche along the Mount St. Bernard Pass; a woman frantically rings the bell thus breaking the cord. Aquatint by J.P.M. Jazet after H. Lecomte., [1830], by Hippolyte Lecomte](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0015261/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
A family caught in an avalanche along the Mount St. Bernard Pass; a woman frantically rings the bell thus breaking the cord. Aquatint by J.P.M. Jazet after H. Lecomte., [1830], by Hippolyte Lecomte
Hippolyte Lecomte · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
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• Birth Name — Hippolyte Lecomte • Born — 28 December 1781 • Died — 26 July 1857 • Illustration — Rohan Road combat, 29 July 1830.
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• Napoléon Ier se faisant présenter à Astorga des prisonniers anglais et ordonne de les traiter avec des soins particuliers, janvier 1809, 1810, Palace of Versailles • Reddition de Mantoue, le 2 février 1797: le général Wurmser se rend au général Sérurier, Salon de 1812, Palace of Versailles • Episode de la guerre d'Espagne en 1823, prise des retranchements de Sainte-Marguerite devant la Corogne, le 5 juillet 1823 (le général Bourke donnant ses ordres au général La RocheJaquelein qui s'opposent au général Quiroga), 1828, Palace of Versailles • Combat de Salo en Italie, 31 juillet 1796. Le général Guyeux assiégé, 1836, Château de Versailles, Palace of Versailles • Bataille de Hochstaedt sur le Danube remportée par les généraux Moreau et Lecourbe sur l'armée autrichienne, 19 juin 1800, 1838, Palace of Versailles • Combat de Mautern en Styrie, remporté par l'armée d'Italie commandée par le prince Eugène de Beauharnais, vice-roi d'Italie, sur les troupes autrichiennes du général Jellarich, 25 mai 1809, 1839, Palace of Versailles • Combat dans les gorges du Tyrol, mars 1797, Palace of Versailles • La bataille de Raab, 14 juin 1809, Palace of Versailles • La prise de Stralsund, 20 août 1807, Palace of Versailles • Le combat de Hollabrunn, 10 juillet 1809, Palace of Versailles
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