Emile Brisset, A Dispatch - French Officers Of Staff In Campaign - Oil On Canvas

French school of the 19th century, scene of the military life of the war of 1870, it represents a bivouac of French staff with a general and his deputy a colonel of cavalry, receiving a dispatch by a captain of cavalry. On the right, an artillery captain is leaning over a map to make his fire calculations. The French flag flies in the wind over the General's tent. The painting is presented in a beautiful 19th century canal frame, gilded with gold leaf. Beautiful oil on canvas with scrupulous design, full of details on the uniforms and finely represented equipment. It is signed lower left E Brisset and dated 1898. A cartouche on the frame takes the name of the artist and the title of the canvas "a dispatch". Emile Brisset (1844 1904), is a French painter, active in Paris, known as a pupil of Edouard Detaille. Like him, he specialized in scenes from military life, mainly from the war of 1870. His main work "The Day After the Battle of Froeschwiller was exhibited at the Salon des Artists Français in 1885. Beautiful patriotic painting celebrating the glory of the French army in the context of the "Belle Epoque", where the French society animated by the desire for revenge prepared the following conflict to recover Alsace and Lorraine Frame dimensions: 78 by 66.5cm Dimensions of the canvas: 61 by 46cm