Antoine Louis Franois Sergent, Gnral en Chef Marceau, 18th Century, Color Etching, Framed for sale at Pamono

Description

Large color etching on wove paper, depicting General Marceau, a military hero of the French Revolution. The model was created in 1798 by Antoine Louis Franois Sergent-Marceau, known as Sergent Marceau.
Antoine Louis Franois Sergent, also known as Sergent-Marceau, was a French politician, painter and engraver born in 1751 in Chartres, France, and died in 1847 in Nice, France. He was mainly active in the classical period of the 19th century.
Antoine Louis Franois Sergent’s works are mainly preserved at the Muse de l’Arme in Paris.

Period: 18th century
Circa : 26 Germinal An VI – 15 April 1798
Dimensions : Height : 72cm x Width : 57cm x Depth : 2cm

A very fine, large-format, highly decorative piece of militaria. Superb bright pastel colors,

The note underneath praises Marceau.
Born in Chartres, soldier at 16, General at 23, died at 27. General-in-Chief of the Army of the West, he defeated the Rebels at Le Mans and Laval. Major General in the Ardennes and Sambre et Meuse armies, where he commanded the right wing, he was victorious at Fleurus, on the Ourthe, Rer and Hundsruck rivers, and captured Coblentz (October 23, 1794).
Mortally wounded at Hoestback, he died on September 22, 1796 at Altenkirchen, surrounded by the Generals of the Austrian army, who honored him in their camp.
The day the French army deposited his body at Fort Petersberg. There, his brothers-in-arms erected an imperishable monument to his glory and their friendship”.