"Who painted this picture?" Topic
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4th Cuirassier | 29 Oct 2020 5:08 p.m. PST |
I've seen it all over the place, but the artist is never credited. It's not Detaille is it?
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Tony Adams | 29 Oct 2020 5:44 p.m. PST |
Search Google for Karl Kopinski paintings |
Handlebarbleep | 30 Oct 2020 8:18 a.m. PST |
Style too modern to be Detaille. I think Tony has aced it. |
4th Cuirassier | 30 Oct 2020 9:26 a.m. PST |
Looks that way, thanks. Weird how it gets plastered all over the web but it's so hard to find it properly credited. He has the Life Guards correctly mounted on black horses apart from the trumpeter, who is correctly mounted on a grey. I always thought cuirassier cloaks were red but maybe not. |
French Wargame Holidays | 30 Oct 2020 12:10 p.m. PST |
It is a nice piece Cuirassier cloaks were grey, but folded so the facing was on the top of the valise. cheers Matt |
deadhead | 30 Oct 2020 2:07 p.m. PST |
Seems that by Waterloo the French cavalry cloak was uniformly grey. Which is such a shame as I love to see the facing colour showing on at least half of the folded top face of the cloak, placed onto the valise (front or back half I cannot remember right now). But not by 1815 Greys for British cavalry were specifically prohibited, years earlier. That, alone, tells you that it had been custom and practice, copying the French and making good sense in a melee. As for pictures being credited, do not get me on my hobby horse. Figures shown with no clue as to the creator, tanks with no mention of the maker, scale rarely specified….just this is "my" work. I must now check my postings actually, but I am sure, almost sure that…. |
Handlebarbleep | 30 Oct 2020 6:37 p.m. PST |
The Cuirassier appear judging by the numeral on the porte-manteaux to be the 4th. According to Paul Dawson's Napoleon's Waterloo Army they had according to an 1814 inspection the old style manteaux, in blanc picque de bleu and at least partially lined with milled serge cloth in the aurore facing colour. So. if the manteaux had been folded to show the facing/lining it would have been aurore not red. The 4th lost 9 OR's killed, 29 wounded included in the 126 recorded as dismounted from a totoal of 52 officers and 286 other ranks. The helmet of the Major of the 4th, Francois Plancon, as worn at Waterloo is in the municipal Museum of Pontarlier The regiment was brigaded with the 1st commanded by Baron Dubois in Watier's 13th Cavalry Division of Milhaud's IV Cavalry Corps. The Colonel in 1815 was the already thrice wounded 40 year old Legion d'honneur winning Jean Baptiste Nicolas Habert, who was appointed on 8 May, accepting on the 11th. |
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