Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
after Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (Lyon 1815 – Paris 1891)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Oak, Paper
Measurements
152.5 x 200 mm
Order this imageCollection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 636921
Summary
Lithograph, Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow after Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (Lyon 1815 – Paris 1891). Printed by Ch. Wittmann after Meissonier entitled '1814'. Reduced reproduction of Meissonier's evocation of the retreat from Moscow led by Napoleon on his grey charger. Painting signed 'Messonier 1864'. Print loose.
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.
Makers and roles
after Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (Lyon 1815 – Paris 1891), artist Charles Wittmann (fl.1891 - 1907), engraver and publisher