Charles édouard Armand-dumaresq: Soldier On Horseback

Charles Édouard ARMAND-DUMARESQ Beautiful signed watercolor depicting a soldier on horseback. Golden frame with wrapped wire and pearls. Frame: height 65 cm, width 53 cm. View: height 34 cm, width 24 cm. Possible delivery. Charles-Édouard Armand Dumaresq (1826-1895) was a student of Thomas Couture. He is a watercolourist, draftsman and painter, first of religious subjects then mainly of military subjects. He was a member of the international jury of the Universal Exhibition of 1867 in Paris. He exhibited there his large-format painting Cambronne at Waterloo, for which Napoleon III presented him with the Cross of the Legion of Honor. This painting is bought by the pasha of Egypt. His works are kept in the museum of the Palace of Versailles, in the Cabinet des Estampes of the National Library or in the National Museum of Franco-American Cooperation in Blérancourt in the Oise. One of his paintings, Signature of the Independence of the United States, is in the Cabinet Room, the meeting room of the American presidential cabinet at the White House.