Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, (French, 1815-1891)
Study for Napoléon I in 1814
Study for Napoléon I in 1814
signed with monogram and dated '1862' (upper left)
oil on panel
23.5 x 11.5cm
The present lot is a study for the 1862 work now in the collection of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The finished work was commissioned by the subject's nephew, Prince Napoleon, and portrays the Emperor in a forbidding landscape just after his last, hard-won victory in the 1814 French campaign, that was fought at Arcis-sur-Aube, near Troyes.
We are grateful to Doctor Constance Hungerford, author of Ernest Meissonier, Master in his Genre (Cambridge, 1999) for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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Study for Napoléon I in 1814
Study for Napoléon I in 1814
signed with monogram and dated '1862' (upper left)
oil on panel
23.5 x 11.5cm
The present lot is a study for the 1862 work now in the collection of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The finished work was commissioned by the subject's nephew, Prince Napoleon, and portrays the Emperor in a forbidding landscape just after his last, hard-won victory in the 1814 French campaign, that was fought at Arcis-sur-Aube, near Troyes.
We are grateful to Doctor Constance Hungerford, author of Ernest Meissonier, Master in his Genre (Cambridge, 1999) for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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