Hippolyte Lalaisse Horses From The Marshes Of Rochefort Around 1850 Large Oil On Canvas

Hippolyte Lalaisse (1810-1884)

Horses of the Rochefort marshes around 1850

Oil on canvas, signature lower right Hy. Lalaisse Inscription on the back M de Rochefort

Good condition, laminated, restorations and a small tear.
Dimensions: 46 x 80 cm

Influenced by his master, Nicolas Charlet, François-Hippolyte Lalaisse registered his illustrations in the romantic movement. He is also known in the field of ethnography for his representation of Breton and Norman costumes. The painter became a drawing teacher at the Ecole Polytechnique, while participating in the Salon de peinture et de sculpture de Paris from 1845.
He also illustrated many works on horses, such as L'Atlas statistics de la production des chevals en France (1850), the fruit of his collaboration with Eugène Gayot, director of the Haras du Pin (1840-1843) who later became Inspector General of the stud farms in charge of their management.

Photograph of an engraving from his book: Horses of the Rochefort Marshes, circa 1850, Statistical Atlas of Horse Production in France by Eugène Gayot and Hippolyte Lalaisse Charente-Maritime