Name: Antique Print-DRAGOON ON HORSEBACK-FRANCE-CAVALRY-Faivre-Meissonier -19th.c.
SKU: RB-905
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Antique Print-DRAGOON ON HORSEBACK-FRANCE-CAVALRY-Faivre-Meissonier -19th.c.

€90.00

This print shows an officer on horseback of the 23rd Dragoon regiment in 1812. It was a French cavalry unit created in 1670 in Turin as Prince-de-Piemont it was transferred to French service in 1671. It became Royal Pi?mont in 1690, 14e Regiment de Cavalerie in 1791 and finally 23e Regiment de Dragons in 1803. It was dissolved in 1928. The uniform worn by this officer belonged to the painter Ernest Meissonier himself, who had the idea to create an army history museum.

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Description

Etching on laid paper. Watermark: Letters M.B.M..
Sheet size: 20,5 x 24,8 cm. (8,1 x 9,8 inch). Image size: 12,5 x 18 cm. (4,9 x 7,1 inch).

This attractive prints is signed with a monogram EM in the plate and a signature in pencil by another person then E. Meisonnier.

Made by ‘Claude Faivre’ after ‘Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier’. Claude Faivre was a 19th century French printmaker, studen of Boulanger, Courty and Jules Lefebvre. Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891) was a French painter, engraver and sculptor who achieved such acclaim during his lifetime that a street in Paris was named after him. His son, Jean Charles Meissonier, was also an artist of some renown. Ernest Meissonier painted primarily military-themed images, during the battles of Napoleon or the French – German war. Meissonier was also known for the details that he included in his works,

Condition: Good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: DRAGOON REGIMENT-OFFICER ON HORSEBACK-FRANCE-CAVALRY

RBOS-A6-50