Grenadier Gallery

European Cavalries, chromolithograph by Richard KnA¶tel (1857-1914), published in 1897

European Cavalries: I) Germany: 1) Prussian cuirassier trumpet player; 2) Prussian Garde du Corps, gala uniform; 3) Prussian Garde dragoon sergeant (parade); 4) Bavarian ulan (parade); 5) Officer, Saxon Garde rider (parade); 6) Brunswick hussar (battlefield); 7) Prussian hussar (battlefield); 8) Mecklenburg dragoon (battlefield); 9) Wuerttemberg dragoon (battlefield); 10) Hessian dragoon (battlefield); 11) Baden dragoon (battlefield); 12) Prussian ulan (parade); 13) Saxon ulan (battlefield); 14) Bavarian chevauleger (battlefield). II) Austria-Hungary: 1) Royal Hungarian bodyguard (court service uniform); 2) K. and k. first Arcieren bodyguard (court service uniform); 3) Honved husar; 4) Hussar; 5) Dragoon; 6) Dragoon officer; 7) Ulan; 8) Hussar officer (off-duty); 9) Territorial Force ulan. III) Italy: 1) Officer, Line cavalry; 2) Cuirassier officer (parade); 3) Officer, Light Cavalleggeri (battlefield); 4) Light rider (battlefield); 5) Officer, Lancet riders (Lancieri, parade); 6) Lancet rider (parade); 7) Lancet rider (battlefield). IV) France: 1) Dragoon officer (parade); 2) Dragoon; 3) Officer, Riding hunters (Chasseurs A? cheval); 4) Riding hunter (parade); 5) Hussar (parade); 6) Cuirassier (battlefield); 7) Instruction officer, Cavalry school Saumur; 8) African riding hunter (Chasseur d'Afrique, battlefield); 9) Spahi. V) Russia: 1) Officer, Don Cossacks (parade); 2) Terek Cossack (parade); 3) Astrakhan Cossack (battlefield); 4) Amur Cossack; 5) Army dragoon (battlefield); 6) Army dragoon (battlefield); 7) Bodyguard hussar; 8) Bodyguard dragoon (parade); 9) Staff officer, Bodyguard grenadier regiment on horseback (parade); 10) Bodyguard cuirassier (battlefield). VI) Great Britain: 1) Officer, Bodyguards on horseback (1st Life Guards, parade); 2) Garde on horseback (Horse Guards, parade; 3) Carbineer (6th Dragoon Guards, parade); 4) Dragoon (1st Royal Dragoons, parade); 5) Dragoon, 'Royal Scots Greys' (parade); 6) Hussar (battlefield); 7) Hussar officer; 8) Ulan

Fire of Moscow in September 1812 (pen & brown ink & grey wash & gouache highlights

XIR414648 Fire of Moscow in September 1812 (pen & brown ink & grey wash & gouache highlights on paper) by Gros, Baron Antoine Jean (1771-1835); 57x84 cm; Louvre (Cabinet de dessins), Paris, France; (add.info.: Incendie de Moscou de Septembre 1812; city set on fire by Russian troops and most residents fleeing when Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) arrived after the Battle of Borodino; b/w photo; black and white photograph; Studio Giraudon 1937; Russian Campaign; INV 27025 recto; plume, encre brune, lavis gris, rehauts de gouache;); French, out of copyright

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Napoleon Bonaparte in his Study at the Tuileries, 1812 (oil on canvas)

XIR155465 Napoleon Bonaparte in his Study at the Tuileries, 1812 (oil on canvas) by David, Jacques Louis (1748-1825); 205x128 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821); portrait depicting the Emperor in characteristic pose with his hand tucked into his waistcoat and wearing the uniform of a Colonel of the Grenadiers, with on his left breast, the decoration of the red ribbon and star of the Grand Aigle of the Legion of Honour and also the gold and green ribbon of the Imperial Order of the Iron Crown (Ordre de la Couronne de Fer), established June 5, 1805 by Napoleon; the guttering candle indicates the emperor's dedication to lucubrations; L'Empereur dans son cabinet de travail;); French, out of copyright

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