The Battle of Bouvines (French: Bataille de Bouvines, 27 juillet 1214) is an 1827 history painting by the French artist Horace Vernet.Ruutz-Rees p.12Hosler p.72Boime p.298 It depicts Philip II of France shortly before the Battle of Bouvines in 1214. A victory for Philip, the subsequent Truce of Chinon ended the Anglo-French War.
It was commissioned by Charles X and was exhibited at the Salon of 1827. It was one of several history paintings he submitted that year.Harkett & Hornstein p.162 It was later included in the Galerie des Batailles in the Palace of Versailles.https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE005882
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Bibliography Boime, Albert. A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 3: Art in Age of Counterrevolution. University of Chicago Press, 2004. Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017. Hosler, John D. Seven Myths of Military History. Hackett Publishing, 2022. Ruutz-Rees, Janet Emily. Horace Vernet. Scribner and Welford, 1880.