Antique French War Oil Painting Napoleon With His Army Generals Horse & Carriage Raymond Desvarreux 1906

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A fine and important French oil painting of Napoleon & his army, by the French-American artist Raymond Desvarreux (1876-1963), the … Read more A fine and important French oil painting of Napoleon & his army, by the French-American artist Raymond Desvarreux (1876-1963), the painting signed & dated 1906.
The painting depicts Napoleon seated in his carriage examining battle plans (likely Waterloo), the carriage pulled by four horses on a cobbled road through woodland & flanked by his generals, with his army bringing up the rear.
The painting is signed lower right "R. Desvarreux" & dated "1906", painted canvas, the painting is housed in the original gilded rococo style frame.
The work is very finely painted, both the painting and frame are in very good condition, this important French painting is ready to grace your wall.
At sight without frame 30" x 20"

Raymond Desvarreux was the son of the American painter James Desvarreux-Larpenteur, he was a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme & Jean Baptiste Detaille. He painted landscapes, horses and hunting scenes like his father, but exhibited at the Paris Salon with great compositions celebrating the campaigns of the Revolution and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. He participated in the panorama of the Battle of Waterloo under the direction of Louis Dumoulin in 1911–1912, and was order a 3rd medal in 1910 and a gold medal at the 1913 Salon des Artistes.
He was a member of the Society of Military Painters in late 1913 and approved by the French Army Museum in early December 1914 and appointed painter of the Ministry of War in February 1915.
He was mobilized in 1914, as a corporal at the 25th Territorial Infantry Regiment, and fought in the North, at Cambrai, Bapaume and Noyelles. In October 1914 he was hospitalized in Doullens during the battle of the Somme and was declared unfit for service in the following March. From December 1914 he was In many theaters of operations he often performed as an interpreter because of his American origins. He met with multiple units of the French and allied armies, of which he represented the uniforms in many small paintings intended for the Musée de l'Armée (150 paintings are still housed there). These works are portraits of soldiers and intersecting officers on the front. He attached representations of materials or trench and cantonment scenes.
After the war, Raymond Desvarreux completely abandoned military painting for landscape painting, he then exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Française of 1929 with the paintings; "The Maneuvers" & "The Dream"
He did not return to the Salon until after 1945 with scenes of battles from the Empire through his work for the Army Museum, Raymond Desvarreux was a talented, meticulous & scrupulous artist, both portraitist, horse painter & landscape painter. The artist's work is displayed worldwide in many prestigious museums & galleries. See less