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Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte 1760-1821 #1805333

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Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte 1760-1821   #1805333
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Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte 1760-1821 with the Wurttembergische cavalry besieging a Russian Hill Town </em></td>
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Given the presence of the Wurttemburgish cavalry behind Napoleon?s right shoulder fighting Russians (in white), the painting can be places as showing an incident in the Russian campaign. However since the background resembles neither Smolensk nor Borodino, it would be hard to pinpoint it any further.

We would like to thank François Houdecek and Peter Hicks, form the Fondation Napoléon with their assitance in cataloguing this painting.

One of the most brilliant individuals in history, Napoleon Bonaparte was a masterful soldier, an unequalled grand tactician and a superb administrator. He was also utterly ruthless, a dictator and, later in his career, thought he could do no wrong.Not a Frenchman by birth, Napoleon Bonaparte was born at Ajaccio on Corsica - only just sold to France by the Italian state of Genoa - on 15 August 1769 and learnt French at the school of Autun and later the military academy at Brienne. He never fully mastered French and his spelling left a lot to be desired.The revolutionary fever that was spreading when Bonaparte was a teenager allowed a talented individual the opportunity to rise far beyond what could have been achieved only a few years previously.

His first real military opportunity came as a captain of artillery at the siege of Toulon, where he expertly seized crucial forts and was able to bombard the British naval and land forces, eventually forcing them to sail away.Now a brigadier-general, Bonaparte served in the army campaigning in Italy ...
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#: 2959</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:19th Century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:French School 19th century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:29</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:23</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte 1760-1821 </td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:oil on canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:oil on canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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