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15. The RAPT

Artist: Henri F.E. PHILIPPOTEAUX, French, (1815 - 1884), and Horace VERNET, French, (1848 - 1904)
Execution date (approximate): 1882
Téchnique: Oil on Canvas, (signed lower left)
Measures: 46.5 x 38 cm.
Description: A warrior kidnapping a young Lady.

Exhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts in London, in 1875, 1876, 1877, 1879, Dictionary of Contributors and
their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904,Vol. VI, p.119, 120.
- Paris Salon of 1844, no.1437,
- The Wallace collection, London, on public from 1897 until 1903.
- Legacy of Lady Wallace, to Sir John Murray Scott.

De Delacroix A Kandinsky, L’orientalisme En Europe.
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 15.10.2010 - 09.01.2011.
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, München 28.01.2010 - 01.05.2011.
Musées des Beaux-Arts de Marseilles, 27.05.2011 - 28.08.2011.
(Reunion des Musées Nationaux de France, rmn)

Biography
Philippoteaux studied art in the studio of Leon Cogniet. He first exhibited his work at the
Paris Salon of 1833. One of his most well-known works was a depiction of the Siege of
Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, painted 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. Philippoteaux
also produced a 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. Philippoteaux was awarded the
Légion d’honneur in 1846.
Philippoteaux’s son Paul Philippoteaux was also an artist; both were famous for their
production of cycloramas. Father and son collaborated on The Defence of the Fort d’Issy
in 1871. They also collaborated on a cyclorama of The Battle of Gettysburg that became a
celebrated work in the United States.

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