Napoleonic wars paintings and art

[arsan]

Hi Nikel!

No idea about the picture, but your comment about the plastic soldiers made me remember this cool link i discovered some month ago

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Index.htm
If like me, you played with plastic soldiers as a kid i'm sure you will find some of them there.
The curiassers of the picture remember me of the first curiassers i knew as a kid
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.asp?manu=AIR&code=01736
Mine were light yellow
Regards

PS: very nice picture by the way!

[jastaV]

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This time very easy. Just want to post my all time favourite napoleonic wars painting, and probably not only napoleonic. As a little tribute to all the war gamers out there. As many of you I have been playing with soldiers since I was a boy (paper and plastic) and now as an adult I continue playing with "digital soldiers"


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For the first one that answer the question and that of course like this painting, I have a little surprise, it took me some time to find it


Name and artist?

Friedland, 1807 by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier.

[color="RoyalBlue"]Napoleon with his general staff salutes a regiment of Cuirassiers who charge by during the Battle of Friedland.[/color]

[Nikel]

Thanks arsan for the link, not those but with similar ones I played when I was a boy


Yes jastaV, that is the answer. Can you hear the sound of the hooves in the tall grass?


When I get home I will post the little surprise, more detailed and high resolutions pics of this painting

[jastaV]

Thanks arsan for the link, not those but with similar ones I played when I was a boy


Yes jastaV, that is the answer. Can you hear the sound of the hooves in the tall grass?


When I get home I will post the little surprise, more detailed and high resolutions pics of this painting

BTW, the portrait is quite famous and was used as cover for Kevin Zucker's generic rules booklet for The Campaigns of Napoleons boargame series published by Clash of Arms......Indeed, my favourite Napoleonic boardgame series!

[Nikel]

OK, here are the more detailed pics

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[Zebedee]

Seeing those chasseurs a cheval of the guard makes me pine for lancers...

[jastaV]

Two pics of a famous Paint: full view and General's detail:





As usual, try to locate Paint name, Officer name, Author name......

Good hunt!

[Nikel]

No idea.

Is this paint famous? This is the first time I see it..., caught in my own trap!

[arsan]

Hmmm...
Not sure but i will make an attempt...
The troops around the general looks like British, the landscape is kind of dry so it must be Spain...
He obviously is not Wellington or Moore, and seems to be wining the battle so...
I will say its... Beresford at Albuera!

[jastaV]

Some tips:
- Oil on canvas: 105.0×141.0 size.
- Hermitage Museum Collection.
- Look at two horse-mounted figures on the right in the "detailed pic": that should help to identify the nationality.

Good hunt!

[jastaV]

No idea.

Is this paint famous? This is the first time I see it..., caught in my own trap!

The battle is a major one of the Age!

[jastaV]

Hmmm...
Not sure but i will make an attempt...
The troops around the general looks like British, the landscape is kind of dry so it must be Spain...
He obviously is not Wellington or Moore, and seems to be wining the battle so...
I will say its... Beresford at Albuera!

Spain has not monopoly of dry kind landscape!
.....Just few red tailcoats make not British!

[Adlertag]

Dokhturov at Leipzig ?

[jastaV]

Dokhturov at Leipzig ?

That's the way for nationality!
.....Not Leipzig!

[jastaV]

On request here is the solution:

Auguste Joseph Desarnod
Uvarov’s Cavalry Attack at Borodino

for details see:
http://expo.interros.ru/eng/photogallery/painting/painting_26/

[arsan]

buuu! it was too difficult!