Napoleon's Mounted Chasseurs on Campaign

1816.

Price: $6,500.00

Unbound. Two oil paintings on canvas. Each measuring approximately 10" x 13". In contemporary wood gilt frames, with a label pasted onto the back of each canvas dated 1816 and signed ("C. M.") by an otherwise unidentified artist depicting French cavalry officers -- Napoleon's mounted Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard or mounted Red Lancers -- on one of the Napoleonic campaigns across Europe between 1812 and 1814. One depicts the mounted officers in the foreground bringing up the rear of a column of soldiers advancing with a covered wagon crossing over a stone bridge in a European valley. The other depicts the same column of soldiers and wagons at rest along a river in front of a stone building, with the mounted officers in the foreground overlooking the scene. There is moderate soiling on the canvas and frame, else fine with no visible cracks to the pigment. A very fine pair of paintings in the manner of Hippolyte Lecomte (1781-1857), who painted many similar scenes of the Napoleonic wars, and of those of Louis Lejeune (1775-1848); Charles Thevenin (1764-1838); and Nicolas Antoine Taunay (1755-1838).

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Item #332219 Napoleon's Mounted Chasseurs on Campaign. FRENCH SCHOOL.
Napoleon's Mounted Chasseurs on Campaign
Napoleon's Mounted Chasseurs on Campaign