Napoleon bekijkt zijn troepen vanaf een heuvel
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
338; 247
About this artwork
lithografie
Art Historical Context
In this evocative 1835 lithography titled *Napoleon bekijkt zijn troepen vanaf eenuvel* ("Napoleon Views His Troops from a Hill French artist Nicolas Toussaint Charlet captures a moment of quiet command. Measuring 247 mm by 338 mm, the print depicts Napoleon Bonaparte surveying his army from an elevated vantage, evoking grandeur of his military campaigns. Charlet, devoted Bonapartist and master of military genre scenes, produced hundreds of such lithographs in the decades after Napoleon's 1821 death, fueling Romantic-era nostalgia for the emperor's era amid France's shifting regimes. Lithogra...
About the Artist
Nicolas Toussaint Charlet · 1792–1845
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