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Watercolors of Dutch soldiers from the Batavian Republic
J.A. Langendijk, 1797-1800
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Watercolors of Dutch soldiers from the Batavian Republic
J.A. Langendijk, 1797-1800
LANGENDIJK, Jan Anthonie (1780-1818). [Watercolor Drawings of Dutch Soldiers. Netherlands, 1797-1800.]
Colorful depictions of Dutch soldiers from the Batavian Republic. The artist, Jan Anthonie Langendijk, was trained by his father, Dirk Langendijk (1748-1805), both of whom specialized in battle scenes. Together they are regarded as the most important Dutch painters of military scenes documenting the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in the Low Countries, from the arrival of the French armies to the Dutch Republic in 1794, through the Batavian Republic of 1795-1806, to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Each drawing in the present album shows two officers or soldiers of an army unit against a background of officers’ quarters, barracks, or landscapes. The majority of the drawings depict soldiers of the Dutch Batavian Republic allied with Napoleon, but some also show Spanish soldiers in Tenerife, English dragoons, and French officers. See Colas 1760.
Quarto (285 x 210mm). 20 watercolor water-color drawings mounted on blank leaves, each drawing approx. 160 x 105mm, with handwritten captions in ink or pencil on verso in Dutch. Modern red morocco.
J.A. Langendijk, 1797-1800
LANGENDIJK, Jan Anthonie (1780-1818). [Watercolor Drawings of Dutch Soldiers. Netherlands, 1797-1800.]
Colorful depictions of Dutch soldiers from the Batavian Republic. The artist, Jan Anthonie Langendijk, was trained by his father, Dirk Langendijk (1748-1805), both of whom specialized in battle scenes. Together they are regarded as the most important Dutch painters of military scenes documenting the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in the Low Countries, from the arrival of the French armies to the Dutch Republic in 1794, through the Batavian Republic of 1795-1806, to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Each drawing in the present album shows two officers or soldiers of an army unit against a background of officers’ quarters, barracks, or landscapes. The majority of the drawings depict soldiers of the Dutch Batavian Republic allied with Napoleon, but some also show Spanish soldiers in Tenerife, English dragoons, and French officers. See Colas 1760.
Quarto (285 x 210mm). 20 watercolor water-color drawings mounted on blank leaves, each drawing approx. 160 x 105mm, with handwritten captions in ink or pencil on verso in Dutch. Modern red morocco.
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