Jean-Adolphe Beaucé

Jean-Adolphe Beaucé (2 August 1818 - 13 July 1875) was a French battle-scene painter. Born in Paris, he followed the French army on campaign from 1843 onwards in North Africa, the Middle East and Mexico. He also painted portraits of military figures and produced illustrations for several works by Alexandre Dumas pere such as The Three Musketeers, The Viscount of Bragelone and The Lady of Monsoreau. He died in the Parisian suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and is buried in the 49th division of the cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris.

Beaucé's tomb monument

Works in public collections
  • Compiègne, château de Compiègne : General Niel at the Battle of Solférino, marouflage on canvas
  • L'Isle-Adam, musée Louis Senlecq : François Louis de Bourbon Prince de Conty Looking at a Battle Scene, print
  • Narbonne, musée d'art et d'histoire : Captain Lelièvre's Heroic Defence at Mazagran, oil on panel
  • Pau, musée des beaux-arts : Portrait of Marshal Bosquet
  • Troyes, musée Saint-Loup : Napoléon on the Bridge at Arcis-sur-Aube, oil on canvas
  • Versailles, château de Versailles

Illustrations

Dumas
  • Les trois mousquetaires, Paris, Lecrivain et Toubon, 1875
  • Vingt ans après, Paris, Lecrivain et Toubon, 1885
  • Les Qurantes-cinq, Paris, Calmann Lévy, 154 p.
  • Le comte de Monte-Christo, Paris, Lecrivain et Toubon, 1860, 159 p.
  • Le vicomte de Bragelonne, Paris, Marescq, 1875, 479 p.
  • Le Trou de l'enfer, Paris, Marescq et Cie, 1855, 154 p.
  • La dame de Monsoreau, Paris, Librairie illustrée, 1875, 560 p.

Other
  • Eugène de Mirecourt, Confessions de Marion Delorme, Paris, V. Bunel, 1876, 840 p.
  • Ann Radcliffe, Les Mystères d'Udolphe, Paris, Marescq et Cie, 1869, 96 p.
  • Eugène Sue, Jean Bart et Louis XIV : drames maritimes du XVIIe siècle, Paris, Marescq et Cie, 1851, 490 p.
  • Eugène Sue, Les mystères de Paris, Paris, [s.n.], 1851, 384 p.
  • Victor Hugo, Les Burgraves, Paris, J. Hetzel, 48 p.

Bibliography
  • (in French) 'Beaucé, Jean-Adolphe' in David Karel, Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes et orfèvres, Presses Université Laval, 1992. (ISBN 9782763772356)
  • 'Jean-Adolphe Beaucé', extract from the Dictionnaire Bénézit, on Oxford Index, 2006 (ISBN 9780199773787)

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