Adolphe Yvon

1817–1893 · Realism

Adolphe Yvon was a French painter known for his paintings of the Napoleonic Wars. Yvon studied under Paul Delaroche, rose to fame during the Second Empire, then finished his career as a teacher.

18 paintings

• Portrait du baron Haussmann (1809-1891), préfet de la Seine (1867)
• Mademoiselle S'Nabou (1892)
• Portrait d'Étienne Mélingue (1808-1875), acteur et sculpteur (1856)
• Esquisse pour l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris : Philippe Auguste avant de partir pour la Terre Sainte, confiant la tutelle de son fils et son trésor aux bourgeois de Paris (1862)
• Portrait de Ferdinand Barrot (1806-1883), homme politique (P345) (1867)
• Bataille de Magenta
• La Courtine de Malakoff (1856)
• The Battle of Kulikovo (1849)
• The Battle of Ulundi, Zulu War, 4 July 1879 (1880)
• Genius of America (1870)
• Portrait de Ferdinand Barrot (1867)
• Portrait de Anne-Sophie Marchoux (1875)
• The Battle of Solferino (1861)
• The Malakoff Gorge (1859)
• Portrait of Napoleon III (1868)
• Genius of America (1858)
• Marshal Ney Supporting the Rear Guard During the Retreat from Moscow (1856)
• The Emperor presents to Haussmann the plan of annexation of the Communes (1865)