European Art: Paintings & Sculpture
European Art: Paintings & Sculpture
EUGÈNE LOUIS LAMI | LA BATAILLE DE WERTINGEN, 1805
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June 18, 04:24 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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EUGÈNE LOUIS LAMI
French
1800-1890
LA BATAILLE DE WERTINGEN, 1805
signed and dated Eug. Lami /1840 lower centre
oil on canvas
unframed: 31 by 50cm., 12 by 19½in.
framed: 43 by 62cm,17 by 24½in.
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Private collection, France
Sale: Société Coutau-Begarie, Paris, 17 October 2012, lot 224
Fought on 8 October 1805, the Battle of Wertingen in Bavaria saw a victory for the French forces led by Marshal Joachim Murat and Marshal Jean Lannes over Lieutenant-Field Marshal Franz von Auffenberg's outnumbered Austrian forces.
Lami was a favourite of King of the French Louis-Philippe during whose reign the present work was painted, and a natural choice to join the king’s project to create a museum of French history in the palace of Versailles. The final version of the battle of Wertingen was never completed and is known today only from this sketch.