1819
oil
canvas
From the collection of Palace of Versailles
Attack on a Large Convoy at Salinas is a 1819 oil by Baron Lejeune Louis-François, held at Palace of Versailles.
This painting is called Attack on a Large Convoy at Salinas. It's a genre scene made with oil paint. The title suggests a dramatic event. The painting's source description mentions a specific date, May 25, 1812, which is earlier than the painting's completion in 1819. To learn more about the artist behind this work, look up the artist: Louis-François, Baron Lejeune.
Attaque d'un grand convoi à Salinas, Biscaye, 25 mai 1812 (French for 'Attack on a large convoy at Salinas, Biscay, 25 May 1812') is an oil on canvas history painting by the French artist Louis-François Lejeune, from 1819.
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It depicts a scene from the Peninsular War on 25 May 1812 when a French convoy was attacked near Salinas by Spanish guerrilleros. Those in the convoy (including the court of Joseph Bonaparte, Spanish allies of the French and British prisoners of war) joined forces to fight off the attackers. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1819 at the Louvre. Today it is in the collection of the Palace of Versailles, having been acquired in 1861.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Source: wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brigade-General Louis-François, Baron Lejeune (3 February 1775 – 29 February 1848) was a French Army officer, painter, lithographer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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