The Capture of the Chevrette is an 1802 history painting by the French-born British artist Philip James de Loutherbourg.
[1] It depicts the cutting out of the French Navy's corvette Chevrette in 1801 during the Napoleonic Wars.
The Chevrette was moored in Camaret Bay in Brittany under the protection of the artillery of shore batteries.
[3] Today the painting is in the collection of the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.
[4] The Scottish artist John Christian Schetky also painted the engagement, a copy of which is now in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.