French Troops in a Mountain Pass Signed and dated 1832
Oil on canvas | 69.5 x 59.4 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 406831
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A French Napoleonic detachment passing through a rocky defile with infantry, cannon and officers on horseback; in the foreground, mounted officers conversing and on the left an infantryman tends to his wounded foot while a comrade waits, smoking.
The artist whose name appears here - F A E Mathews - cannot be identified.Provenance
First recorded in a room on the Chamber Floor at Windsor Castle in 1878
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Oil on canvas
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69.5 x 59.4 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
65.1 x 72.6 x 7.6 cm (frame, external)
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