01 Work, The Art of War, Betsellère Emile's The forgotten, with footnotes

Betsellère Emile (1847-1880)

The Forgotten! c. 1870-1871

Oil on canvas

Height: 1.23 m, Width: 2m

Bayonne, Bonnat-Helleu museum

This soldier abandoned on a battlefield and trying to get up is both an iconic image of the war of 1870 and the illustration of a Bayonne story. The model is Théodore Larran (1845-1881), a young seminarian from Bayonne, conscripted at the time of the conflict. Seriously wounded in the heart at the battle of Saint-Privat, he was forgotten on the battlefield by the ambulances (which we can see in the distance), and it was a Red Cross nurse, Marie-Thérèse Jacquet, who saves his life. They married in 1874 and returned to live in Bayonne. 

Betsellère, a Bayonne painter of the same generation, fell seriously ill following deprivations during the siege of Paris in 1870 and died aged 33. He was touched by the story of Théodore Larran and met his model several times, even making a cast of his hands. However, the work is not realistic and cleverly mixes a smooth technique for the idealized face of the soldier and a freer, knife-based technique for the representation of the snowy landscape. More on this painting

Émile Pierre Betsellère , born in Bayonne in 1847 and died in his hometown on April 9, 1880, is a French painter .

Betsellère was a student at the Imperial School of Fine Arts in Paris in the painting studio of Alexandre Cabanel .

He exhibited at the Salon of 1878 at the Palais des Champs-Élysées in Paris; where he was rewarded with a 3rd class medal for work, Jesus calming the storm. He was represented by The Betrayal of General Dumouriez and a Portrait of a Man at the Salon of 1880.

Émile Betsellère fell seriously ill following deprivations during the siege of Paris in 1870 and died aged 33. More on Émile Pierre Betsellère

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