Pair of paintings signed Hippolyte Lalaisse

Hippolyte Lalaisse (1812-1884)
Beautiful pair of oil on canvas depicting:
- 1: The Charge of the Zouaves
- 2: Officer of the 1er Régiment de Chasseurs d'Afrique and spahi
Beautiful gilded frames decorated with guilloches, palmettes, interlocking laurel leaves, lictor beams, ribboned wire and pearls.
Signed.
1 View: height 38.5 cm, width 31 cm, frame 62.5 cm x 55 cm.
2 View: height 39 cm, width 31.5 cm, frame 64 cm x 56 cm.
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Hippolyte Lalaisse (1812-1884)
Son of Augustin DELALAISSE, a surveyor, and Thérèse Barbe Louise PERREZ, he arrived in Paris in the 1830s, where he became a pupil of Nicolas CHARLET, whom he succeeded as professor of drawing at the École Polytechnique from 1839 to 1877. In 1875, he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in recognition of his loyal service.
Hippolyte LALAISSE exhibited at the Paris Salon between 1845 and 1874. Renowned for his animal paintings, particularly of horses, which were sent to the official salons, the press of the time dedicated several flattering comments to him, of which here are a few examples:
"Les chevaux de M. Lalaisse sont d'une peinture excellente et vraie" by A. de La Fizelière in Salon de 1850-1851,
"The oriental horse, by M. Lalaisse, is perfectly studied. The gait, the dress, the ensemble, everything seems very good to us in this painting" in Journal des beaux-arts, July 15, 1849, p.50,
"He painted horses as well as Carle Vernet - which is saying a lot. All his studies are very beautiful. The drawing is vigorous, the color solid, the musculature excellent." in L'Hôtel Drouot et la curiosité en 1883-1884, p. 339
"Hippolyte Lalaisse was more than an excellent draughtsman. Gifted with a flexible and varied talent, possessing remarkable qualities of observation that Géricault, his first master, had immediately distinguished, he had first been an engraver, then an aquafortist, and it was not long before he would distinguish himself in turn as a landscape painter, an animalist, a genre painter, and, above all, as a painter of military subjects and a skilled watercolorist." in La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne by Émile Dacier, p. 74.
Naturally shy, the artist lived in seclusion and, thanks to his talent, had built up a particular clientele over the years. When they bought a painting from him, Lalaisse would paint their horses and carriage on top of it.
He was also a prolific lithographer, especially of Breton regional costumes and uniforms.
Museums: Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Chaumont, Lons-le-Saunier, Strasbourg...