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The Battle of Aboukir
ArtistLouis-François Lejeune
Year1804
TypeOil on canvas, history painting
Dimensions185 cm × 255 cm (73 in × 100 in)
LocationPalace of Versailles, Versailles

The Battle of Aboukir (French: Bataille d'Aboukir) is an 1804 history painting by the French artist Louis-François Lejeune. It depicts the Battle of Abukir fought on 25 July 1799 during the French invasion of Egypt. General Napoleon Bonaparte French troops defeated a force from the Ottoman Empire outside Abu Qir on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt.

It was one of three paintings Lejeune exhibited at the Salon of 1804 at the Louvre in Paris. Today it is in the collection of the Musée de l'Histoire de France at the Palace of Versailles.

References

  1. Grisgsby p.134-35
  2. Hornstein p.32.
  3. https://collections.chateauversailles.fr/#/query/e0d008d7-e634-4731-b810-6acb3d35e8b3

Bibliography

  • Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo . Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-revolutionary France. Yale University Press, 2002.
  • Hornstein, Katie. Picturing War in France, 1792–1856. Yale University Press, 2018.
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