Vive L'Empereur (painting)

is a history painting made retrospectively by French artist Édouard Detaille in 1891, based upon the cavalry charge of the French 4th Hussars during the Battle of Friedland.

[1] The actual battle had taken place on 14 June 1807, some 41 years before the artist's birth.

[2] The painting was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1893, where it remains.

[3] In June 2014, the Art Gallery of New South Wales purchased Portrait of Édouard Detaille by Basile Lemeunier (1852–1922), which shows Detaille at work in his studio – painting Vive L'Empereur!

– atop a wooden ladder with a lit cigarette in his mouth.