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242 - Jean-Louis GUDIN (1799-1823), attributed to, General Bonapar…
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Jean-Louis GUDIN (1799-1823), attributed to, General Bonaparte leading the battle of the Pyramids, Watercolour gouache, pen and black ink on two sheets mounted on old cardboard. Coaster, pitchpin frame. H.45 x W.60,5 cm. B.E. (Traces of humidity) Unlike the following work, this composition is unpublished and does not seem to have been reprinted as an engraving. in engraving. Historical background: The Battle of the Pyramids took place on 21 July 1798 during Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign. It pitted the French army against the Mamluk forces near Cairo. Cairo, it resulted in a decisive victory for the French troops the tactical superiority of their infantry and artillery. and artillery. This victory led to the capture of Cairo and was one of the most emblematic episodes in Napoleon's Napoleon's epic in the East. Biography : Jean-Louis GUDIN was a French painter and illustrator active at the end of the First Empire and the beginning of the Restoration. The elder brother of the marine painter Théodore Gudin, he grew up in an artistic milieu marked by a taste for history painting, military scenes and Napoleonic subjects characteristic of the early 19th century. His career was cut short by his tragic death on 4 March 1823, when he drowned in the Seine at the age of twenty-four. This episode is recounted by Eugène Sue in volume IV of La Vie de Paris (pp. 228-235).
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About the sale The Empire at Fontainebleau - Second day
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Auction time 06/21/2026 at 10:30 AM
Lot description modified on 06/10/2026 at 9:26 AM
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