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![[France] Masséna, Général de Division, a l'Armée d'Italie, puis Général en Chef des Armées du Danube et d'Italie.](jpegs/28217.jpg)
[France] Masséna, Général de Division, a l'Armée d'Italie, puis Général en Chef des Armées du Danube et d'Italie.
Bonne maison pinxit. Lavachez sculp. Reville inv et del.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼"). Bottom left corner missing.
Oval mezzotint portrait of André Masséna (1758-1817), surrounded by an etched border with engraved text and a scene representing his defence of Genoa in 1800. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'. André Masséna, Marshal of France (1804); Duke of Rivoli (1808); and Prince of Esslingen (1810). He entered the army in 1775 and served as a soldier; in 1789 he retired but entered the revolutionary army in 1791. In 1793 he was a brigadier general and took part in the siege of Toulon. In 1794 he became a division general. Massena operated successfully at the head of the vanguard of the army in Napoleon’s Italian campaign of 1796-97. In 1799 he commanded troops in Switzerland and defeated General A. M. Rimskii-Korsakov’s Russo-Austrian corps. In 1800, Massena commanded the troops besieged at Genoa. In the war between Austria and France in 1809 he commanded the left wing at Wagram. In 1810-11 he was commander of troops in Portugal but was removed for a series of defeats. In 1814 he went over to the side of the Bourbons and in 1815 was made a peer of France.
[Ref: 28217] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Bonne maison pinxit. Lavachez sculp. Reville inv et del.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Mezzotint and etching. 430 x 285mm (17 x 11¼"). Bottom left corner missing.
Oval mezzotint portrait of André Masséna (1758-1817), surrounded by an etched border with engraved text and a scene representing his defence of Genoa in 1800. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'. André Masséna, Marshal of France (1804); Duke of Rivoli (1808); and Prince of Esslingen (1810). He entered the army in 1775 and served as a soldier; in 1789 he retired but entered the revolutionary army in 1791. In 1793 he was a brigadier general and took part in the siege of Toulon. In 1794 he became a division general. Massena operated successfully at the head of the vanguard of the army in Napoleon’s Italian campaign of 1796-97. In 1799 he commanded troops in Switzerland and defeated General A. M. Rimskii-Korsakov’s Russo-Austrian corps. In 1800, Massena commanded the troops besieged at Genoa. In the war between Austria and France in 1809 he commanded the left wing at Wagram. In 1810-11 he was commander of troops in Portugal but was removed for a series of defeats. In 1814 he went over to the side of the Bourbons and in 1815 was made a peer of France.
[Ref: 28217] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)