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Source Description
After accompanying the French army in the Austro-Italian War of 1859, Meissionier abandoned the small, Dutch 17th-century genre subjects for which he had become known and turned with even greater success to depicting events in the career of Napoleon I. In this small painting commissioned by the subject's nephew, Prince Napoleon, the emperor is portrayed 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: 23,000 French troops withstood the onslaught of 90,000 Austrians, but were unable to capitalize on their victory.
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Document identity
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21652
label
1814
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obj
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drawing
citationUrl
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3
Source metadata
id
21652
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
1814
description
After accompanying the French army in the Austro-Italian War of 1859, Meissionier abandoned the small, Dutch 17th-century genre subjects for which he had become known and turned with even greater success to depicting events in the career of Napoleon I. In this small painting commissioned by the subject's nephew, Prince Napoleon, the emperor is portrayed 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: 23,000 French troops withstood the onslaught of 90,000 Austrians, but were unable to capitalize on their victory.
provenance
Prince Napoléon, Vente publique de vingt-six tableaux, Paris, April 4, 1868, no. 18; Bouruet-Aubertot (date and mode of acquisition unknown); J. Ruskin (date and mode of acquisition unknown); J. Ruskin Sale, London, June 3, 1882, no. 111; Defoer Sale, Paris, May 22, 1886, no. 23; purchased by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, May 22, 1886 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 630.
date
1862
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
panel paintings
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3
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3
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
32.4
height
24.2
dimensionsRaw
H: 12 3/4 x W: 9 1/2 in. (32.4 x 24.2 cm); Framed H: 20 3/8 x W: 17 3/16 x D: 2 15/16 in. (51.75 x 43.66 x 7.46 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] Lower right: E [conjoined] MEISSONIER; [Date] Lower right: 1862
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oil on panel
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4228
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EAN
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2113
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photo
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