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Description: | Signed: yes Description: A celebrated incident of the Napoleonic wars took place on 21 July 1801, when a British force captured the French ship La Chevrette at Brest in Brittany. A boarding party attack the prow of the Chevrette, men clamber on board and others are already engaged in fighting. Billowing smoke makes the figures on deck only dimly visible. This dramatic picture exemplifies Loutherbourg's patriotic scenes of contemporary history which blend documentary and epic imagination, and emphasise the bravery of individual soldiers. The painting was commissioned by the engraver James Fitter, who toured it around the country and made an engraving after it. | Subjects: | marine; figure; military and war | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Loutherbourg, Philip James de (French painter and scenographer, 1740-1812, active in Great Britain) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8885... | Go to resource |
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