The Battle of Jemapes is an 1821 history painting by the French artist Horace Vernet.

A major French victory, achieved two months before execution of the deposed Louis XVI, it launched the Flanders Campaign in the Austrian Netherlands.

It was the first of a series of four major battles paintings commissioned from Vernet by the Duke of Orleans, a cousin of Louis XVIII and leader of the Liberal opposition and himself a future monarch.

[3] The presence of French tricolours in the painting as well as its celebration of a revolutionary victory were considered potentially subversive during the Restoration era.

This led the authorities at the Louvre to reject both this and another painting by Vernet The Gate at Clichy from display at the Salon of 1822 in Paris.