Louis-Philippe Crépin

Combat de la Bayonnaise contre l'Ambuscade, 1798

Louis-Philippe Crépin (* 1772 ; † 1851 ) was a French marine painter .

Life

Crépin received his artistic lessons from the painters Hubert Robert and Claude Joseph Vernet . Together with his colleague Théodore Gudin , Crépin was appointed the first Peintre Officiel de la Marine after the July Revolution of 1830 .

reception

One of Crépin's most important works - “Combat de la Bayonnaise versus l'Ambuscade, 1798” - can be seen today in the Musée national de la Marine ( Paris ).

Works (selection)

• Battle of Trafalgar . 1805
• Return of the Bourbons . 1814
• Napoleon I and Empress Marie-Louise at the naval parade on May 30, 1811 in the roadstead of Cherbourg
• Naval battle between the French frigate "Arethuse" and the English frigate "Amelia"
• Cherbourg harbor
• Falcon hunting
• Bombardment of Cadiz by the French fleet

literature

• Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . New edition Grund, Paris 1999 ff.

Web links

Commons : Louis-Philippe Crépin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files