Hippolyte Bellangé: Study Of Soldiers In The Eastern Campaigns

Interesting study of a soldier of the armies of the Orient, probably preparatory to a large painting representing the campaigns carried out by the French army in the middle of the 19th century. Hippolyte Bellangé (1800-1866) is an artist well known for his military representations, he received many orders from the Emperor Napoleon III. We will note the small study, it is the ink of the soldier's arm, which clearly shows that it is a working document. The sheet is glued (on the side only on a blue passe-partout of the time, and annotated by a collector with the name of the artist. This is a plausible attribution, given the quality of the execution and the subject. dimensions of the drawing alone: width 21 cm x height 29 cm