Ange Louis JANET-LANGE
 (Paris, 1811 - Paris, 1872)

 The Amazon, Portrait of Madame de C…

 Oil on canvas
 Signed and dated lower left
 81 x 65 cm

 Exhibition :
  
 Paris Salon of 1846, under number 979
 JANET-LANGE entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1833 where he was a student of INGRES, COLLIN and Horace VERNET. He made his debut at the Salon of 1836 and his 1859 submission was awarded a medal.
 He painted hunting subjects, episodes from the Crimean, Italian and Mexican wars. In 1846, he was commissioned by Marshal SOULT to paint a series of military uniforms.
 He collaborated for a long time with L'Illustration, the Journal Amusant and the Tour du Monde. He produced a certain number of lithographs, notably several pieces on Louis-Napoléon BONAPARTE, collaborating with Horace VERNET on the drawings illustrating L'Histoire de Napoléon.
 Under the Second Empire, he became one of the official painters of the imperial epic, with prestigious commissions such as La France illuminant le Monde, currently preserved at the Musée Carnavalet under the title La République. Many of his works disappeared in the fire at the Tuileries. However, one can admire his work at the Musée de Compiègne, Napoléon III chasse à tir à la faisanderie, or on deposit at the military circle of Rennes Napoléon III à Solferino, 24 juin 1859, which was acquired by the Emperor after being exhibited at the Salon of 1861.
 Ange-Louis JANET also distinguished himself in historical painting: his imposing Nero in the Circus Games, measuring 4 metres by 6 metres (1855), left such a mark on the collective imagination that it was recreated almost identically 104 years later in Ben-Hur by William WYLER.

 Museums : Paris (Carnavalet), Ajaccio, Carpentras, Chambéry, Epinal, Rochefort, Tours…