The Battle of Taillebourg, 21 July 1242

The Battle of Taillebourg, 21 July 1242 is an 1837 painting of the Battle of Taillebourg by Eugène Delacroix,[1][2] one of 33 huge works commissioned from different artists by Louis-Philippe I for his Gallery of Battles at the Palace of Versailles, inaugurated in 1837.[3] It still hangs there, between Horace Vernet's The Battle of Bouvines, 27 July 1214 and Charles-Philippe Larivière's The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle, 18 August 1304. It is Delacroix's only work in the Gallery and probably his only work in the whole Versailles complex.[4][5]

References
  1. "Joconde entry".
  2. "La bataille de Taillebourg, 21 juillet 1242" (PDF).
  3. "Inauguration des galeries historiques".
  4. "Sketch for the work in the Louvre".
  5. "Musee d'Orsay article".
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