Lot Essay
Possibly related to the print Attaque de Mameluck contre un détachement de l'infantrie française engraved by Coqueret and published by Rolland in 1806.
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An Egyptian horseman blowing up a gun, the French infantry fighting the Egyptians in the background
Details
Antoine-Charles-Horace Vernet, called Carle Vernet (1758-1836)
An Egyptian horseman blowing up a gun, the French infantry fighting the Egyptians in the background
signed and dated 'C. Vernet 1805'
pencil, black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (slightly oxidized) on light brown paper
17¼ x 22 5/8 in. (436 x 575 mm.)
An Egyptian horseman blowing up a gun, the French infantry fighting the Egyptians in the background
signed and dated 'C. Vernet 1805'
pencil, black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (slightly oxidized) on light brown paper
17¼ x 22 5/8 in. (436 x 575 mm.)