Jean-baptiste Le Paon - Scene Of Soldiers Near A Castle

Jean-Baptiste LE PAON Paris, 1738 – Paris, 1785 Scene of soldiers near a castle Wash and pen 25 x 31 cm (38 x 44 cm with the frame) Signed and dated lower right: “Le Paon / 1785” Collection stamp lower right “WAO” Collection number on the back “25063” Beautiful old baguette Very good condition Jean-Baptiste Le Paon was a French painter and watercolorist of the 18th century. A student of Casanova, he joined the army in 1756 and specialized in battle scenes. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1779 to 1782. He was active in Paris and Versailles. Jean-Baptiste Le Paon was included in the exhibition "The French landscape from Poussin to Corot" in 1925 at the Petit Palais under number 179 ("Manoeuvres of the Maison du Roi on the hillsides of Satory"). Several of his works are now kept at the Condé Museum in the Château de Chantilly. Our drawing shows a scene of soldiers near a castle with a soldier on horseback, a horse arching and other soldiers, crossing the river and the bridge. Another genre scene, a painting kept at the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw in Poland "The Prince of Nassau hunting a jaguar" and dated 1784 is close to our watercolor. We find the same horse arching, a soldier on horseback in motion, in a landscape with a castle.