… at War by Harriet Carruthers.
"They are all here, all your favourites and more besides. Napoleon crossing the Alps (both versions), Meissonier's 1807 and 1814, Vernet's The Battle of Jena Adolphe Yvon's Marshal Ney Sustaining the Rear-Guard of the Grand Army and numerous of those wonderful, romantic paintings of Édouard Detaille. In all 87 wonderful colour plates, depicting scenes and incidents from the Napoleonic Wars, are presented.
The works of the well-known artists of the period, or since; Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier, Jacques-Louis David, Antoine-Jean Gros, Édouard Detaille, François Gérard, Vasily Vereshchagin, Horace Vernet, Henri Fêlix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, Louis-François Lejeune, Jacques François Swebach, Paul Delaroche, Charles Thévenin, Felician de Myrbach, Adolphe Yvon, Albrecht Adam, Peter von Hess, Jan Chelminski, J Rosen, Robert Alexander Hillingford, Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson), Charles Auguste Guillaume Steuben, Henri-Georges-Jacques Chartier, Charles Lock Eastlake. So too some of the less-well known names, to me at least (even though some of their work is instantly recognisable); Jean-Simon Berthélemy, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Pierre Gautherot, Lionel-Noél Royer, François-Louis-Joseph Watteau, Fernard Cormon, Illarion Pryanishnikov, Albert Bligny, J Rosen,Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour, William Quiller Orchardson, William Holmes Sullivan, William Sadler, Ulpiano Checa and Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht…"
Full review here
link
Amicalement
Armand