Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 16

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

1906

$8,500
£6,449.60
€7,374.55
CA$11,872.20
A$13,200.27
CHF 6,892.45
MX$160,679.38
NOK 87,944.67
SEK 82,399.95
DKK 55,037.59
Shipping
Retrieving quote...
The 1stDibs Promise:
Authenticity Guarantee,
Money-Back Guarantee,
24-Hour Cancellation

About the Item

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.
  • Creator:
    Raymond Desvarreux (1876 - 1961, French)
  • Creation Year:
    1906
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 31 in (78.74 cm)Width: 41 in (104.14 cm)Depth: 3.25 in (8.26 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Very good condition.
  • Gallery Location:
    Portland, OR
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: BB-104211stDibs: LU1366215941072

More From This Seller

View All
Antique Miniature Oil Painting on Panel French Battle Cavalry Horse Scene 1875
Located in Portland, OR
A good antique miniature French School oil on panel painting, a post battle cavalry scene, James Alexander Walker (1831-1898), British, circa 1875. The painting depicts two French cavalry officers riding through a rural landscape, each on horseback, one is evidently wounded and is being supported by the other. The painting is signed to the verso of the walnut panel it is painted on and titled "Hors de Combat", meaning out of combat due to injury. Walker's auction record for a painting was at Christies London, for more than $191,000 in 2007. The painting is housed in the original ebonized frame with gilded Fleur de Lis decoration, condition is good, unrestored antique condition and ready to hang. James Alexander-Walker (1831 – 1898), was a British painter of French descent for his battle scenes. He was born in Calcutta, but from 1871 he lived in Paris where he made historical scenes of soldiers. He died in Paris...
Category

1870s French School Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Antique French Oil Painting Army Cavarly Soldier Horse Military Despatch Bearer
By Wilfrid Constant Beauquesne
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique oil painting by Wilfred Constant Beauquesne (1847-1913), of a French cavalry soldier on horseback, 1883. The painting titled "The Despatch Bearer", depicts a French cavalry soldier riding his horse frantically to deliver despatches to the front. The soldier in full uniform with his cavalry trooper's sword hanging from his sadle & the horse hair from his Cuirassier helmet...
Category

1880s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Antique Oil Painting Race Horse "Lord Lyon" Triple Crown Winner Harry Hall 1866
Located in Portland, OR
An important oil on canvas painting by the celebrated equestrian artist, Harry Hall (1814-1882), of the racehorse "Lord Lyon", 1866. Hall was the most important equestrian artist of ...
Category

1860s English School Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th century French Barbizon School Painting oil on Canvas Landscape circa 1840
Located in Portland, OR
19th century French Barbizon School Painting, oil on canvas signed "Marin", Circa 1840. A very attractive bucolic, pastoral landsacpe scene with sheep grazing on the banks of a lake ...
Category

Early 19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Realist Harvest Landscape Painting Bucks County Pennslyvania
By Frank F. English
Located in Portland, OR
Antique American watercolor painting, landscape harvest farm scene by Frank F. English (1854 - 1922), Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Circa 1900. A very attractive painting by the celebrated Pennsylvania artist Frank F. English, the location is in Point Pleasant, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The painting depicts a scene of blue skies with two farmers tossing hay with pitchforks & two horses harnessed to a hay wagon, with barns to the background. The painting signed lower right " Frank F. English", condition is excellent this very charming painting is ready to hang on your wall. Biography Frank F. English was born in Louisville Kentucky in 1854. In the early 1880s, he studied for five years in the evening classes of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His instructors included Thomas Eakins, James P. Kelly and Thomas Anshutz. However, English's reputation primarily rests with his outstanding facility as a watercolorist; most of his known paintings are executed in this medium. English's propensity for its use coincides, appropriately enough, with the watercolor's growing popularity among other American painters. The American Water Color Society brought the medium special prominence by the late 1860s, and acceptance on the level of oil painting in 1876. That same year, the society was invited to display its works at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Its members exhibited 116 watercolors, and their public exposure was enormous. It is safe to assume that during the 159-day Centennial, Frank English was among the nearly 10 million exposition attendees, surpassing attendance records at all preceding world's fairs. At age twenty-two, English, traveled to Philadelphia to see works by the Society's notables such as Samuel Colman, R. Swain Gifford, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Albert Fitch...
Category

Early 1900s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Antique British Oil Painting Seascape Coast Scene Shipwreck Landscape Horses
Located in Portland, OR
A very good antique 19th century British oil on canvas painting, seascape coastal scene by Samuel C. Bird, circa 1870. This very attractive oil on canvas painting depicts a coastal s...
Category

1870s English School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

You May Also Like

Otto Von Thoren, 19th Century, Antique Oil Painting, Horses with Farmer Coach
By Otto Von Thoren
Located in Berlin, DE
Karl Kasimir Otto Ritter von Thoren (born July 21, 1828 in Vienna, died July 15, 1889 in Paris). Dimensions without frame. Austrian officer and painter. Thoren was the son of Colonel Franz Kasimir Ritter von Thoren and his wife Konstanze Maria (née Lachmann). He became an officer in 1846 and was involved in the Hungarian campaign in 1848. He then spent a long time in Venice, where he was employed as an adjutant to the military and civil governor Ludwig Gorzkowski. After turning to painting in 1857, he studied in Brussels and Paris for several years. In the mid-1860s he was commissioned to create a portrait of the Emperor Franz Josef in Vienna. After painting the death...
Category

19th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel

French Victorian Horse Regimen Painting
By Breaad
Located in Queens, NY
French Victorian (19th Cent) oil painting of French regiment on horseback (signed BAIRD) in gilt frame
Category

Antique 19th Century French Victorian Paintings

Materials

Paint

19th Century historical military oil painting of a French Cuirassier on a horse
By Ernest Crofts
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Ernest Crofts British, (1847-1911) The Search Party Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1889 Image size: 17.5 inches x 13.5 inches Size including frame: 27 inches x 23 inches An excellen...
Category

19th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

horse & carriage/gig , country scene, antique oil, by John Vine of Colchester
Located in York, GB
A fine antique oil painting, on canvas, of horses pulling a tandem at speed. signed and titled lower left, Vine Colchester 1834 This fine painting shows two horses pulling an open carriage /gig with gentleman in extensive landscape/park The size of the painting is approx 50 x 80 cms, whilst overall the size framed is 100cm x 71 cm This is a fine painting in very good condition housed in a gilt frame ready to hang Provenance: The E. W. Towler Collection, formerly of Glympton Park, Woodstock, Oxfordshire see details below The artist John Vine was born with a disability that did not appear to interfere with his ability to draw and paint, largely self-taught as an animal painter, as his reputation grew he exhibited at the Society of British Artists in Grosvenor Square. Based at Colchester he painted many different subjects including farms, houses, children and animals. Eric W. Towler was a remarkable man. He was born in 1900 and left school at the age of 12 to work in a Yorkshire pit and through a lifetime of hard work, self-improvement, luck and a refusal to limit his horizons achieved many of his aspirations. As a Yorkshireman through and through, he believed in ‘spending the brass in his pocket’ and over time he was successful enough to acquire enough ‘brass’ to enable his purchase of Glympton Park and furnish it as a traditional country house with all the trappings – in his case collections of...
Category

Mid-19th Century Old Masters Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

19th Century Russian Oil on Canvas Hunt Scene
Located in Norwood, NJ
Impressive well painted 19th century Russian oil on canvas of hunt scene or chase featuring troika pulled by 6 horses in full stride. Man armed w...
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Russian Beaux Arts Paintings

Materials

Wood, Giltwood, Paint

Mid 19th Century French Napoleon III Oil on Canvas Painting in Carved Gilt Frame
Located in Dallas, TX
Set in the original carved gilt wood frame and painted in France circa 1860, the antique canvas depicts a pastoral scene with soldiers on horse-drawn carriage stopping in front of a ...
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Giltwood