Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessières (1768-1813)

Details

Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815-1891)
Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessières (1768-1813)
oil on panel
signed with monogram (lower right)
8¾ x 6¼ in. (21.8 x 15.8 cm.)
(3)together with two arm studies by the same artist

Provenance

with Hammer Galleries, New York.

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Lot Essay

This work is a study for the figure of Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessières from the larger 1807 work The Battle of Friedland, which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
It is believed that Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessières served under Napoleon in all of his campaigns. He was appointed a Marshal in 1809.

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