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FRENCH MILITARY PAINTING circa 1850 NAPOLEONIC WARS browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:N. America:American: Pre 1900: item # 961260 Please refer to our stock # FrMilitary when inquiring.
Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver 5133 Harding Road B-10, PMB #392 Nashville TN 37205 (615) 477-6221 Guest Book $1,250.00 |
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| This wonderful mid-19th century oil on tin French School military painting depicts a patriotic woman in the foreground, and in the background uniformed soldiers, tents, sheafs of grain, and staffs with the French Imperial eagle which were carried into battle as standards during the Napoleonic Wars. The fashionable lady is dressed in the new cage crinoline favored in 1855 by Empress Eugenie (1820-1920), wife of The Second French Empire’s Napoleon III (1808-73), a style that was followed by European fashion until the end of the 1860s. This lady wears the fashion and hair style of the day and is shown saluting. This could be a recruitment poster for the Crimean War (1853-1856) when France allied with the British Empire, The Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia against the Russian Empire. It was the first war to be documented in photographs. In its gilt oval frame, the painting is in great original condition. | |||||||||||||
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