Vive L'Empereur (painting)

{{Short description|Painting by Édouard Detaille}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}

{{Infobox artwork

| title = Vive L'Empereur!

| other_language_1 = French

| other_title_1 = Vive L'Empereur – charge du quatrième hussards à la bataille de Friedland, 14 juin 1807

| other_language_2 =
English

| other_title_2 = Long live the Emperor – Charge of the 4th Hussars at the battle of Friedland, 14 June 1807

| image = Edouard Detaille - Vive L'Empereur - Google Art Project.jpg

| image_upright = 1.4

| artist = Édouard Detaille

| catalogue =

| year = {{Start date|1891}}

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| medium = Oil on canvas

| subject = Cavalry charge of the French 4th Hussars

| height_metric = 445

| width_metric = 512.5

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| height_imperial = 175.2

| width_imperial = 201.77

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| dimensions_ref = {{cite web|title=Vive L'Empereur - Edouard Detaille - Google Arts & Culture|url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/uQHHEYw3tHfkcw|website=Google Cultural Institute|access-date=10 January 2017|language=en}}

| metric_unit = cm

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| designation =

| condition = Restored

| city = Sydney

| museum = Art Gallery of New South Wales

| accession = 4560

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| website = {{URL|https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/4560/|artgallery.nsw.gov.au/4560}}

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Vive L'Empereur! 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. The actual battle had taken place on 14 June 1807, some 41 years before the artist's birth.{{cite web|title=Vive L'Empereur! (1891) by Edouard Detaille |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/4560/|website=Art Gallery of New South Wales|accessdate=10 January 2017}}