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| Keywords: Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissionier - 1814 - Walters 3752.jpg After accompanying the French army in the Austro-Italian War of 1859 Meissionier abandoned the small Dutch 17th-century genre subjects for which he had become known and turned with even greater success to depicting events in the career of Napoleon I In this small painting commissioned by the subject's nephew Prince Napoleon the emperor is portrayed in a forbidding landscape just after his last hard-won victory in the 1814 French campaign that was fought at Arcis-sur-Aube near Troyes 23 000 French troops withstood the onslaught of 90 000 Austrians but were unable to capitalize on their victory 1862 oil on panel cm 32 4 24 2 ; Framed cm 51 75 43 66 7 46 accession number 37 52 21652 Prince Napoléon Vente publique de vingt-six tableaux Paris April 4 1868 no 18 Bouruet-Aubertot date and mode of acquisition unknown J Ruskin date and mode of acquisition unknown J Ruskin Sale London June 3 1882 no 111 Defoer Sale Paris May 22 1886 no 23 see George A Lucas diary May 22 1886 William T Walters city Baltimore George A Lucas as agent Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1886 Signature Lower right E conjoined MEISSONIER; Date Lower right 1862 International Exhibition 1862 The Taste of Maryland Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 Cavaliers and Cardinals Nineteenth Century French Antecdotal Painting Taft Museum of Art Cincinatti; Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington; Arnot Art Museum Elmira 1992 Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1999-2000 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 19th Century Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara; Jack S Blanton Museum of Art Austin 2010-2011 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier Painted portraits of Napoleon I of France 1804-1814 Napoleon I of France in 1814 French paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1860s paintings from France 1862 paintings Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet | ||||
