Jacques-François-Joseph Swebach
A military encampment, with an extensive landscape beyond
Lot Closed
December 16, 03:14 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Jacques-François-Joseph Swebach
Metz 1769 - 1823 Paris
A military encampment, with an extensive landscape beyond
signed and dated lower left: Swebach 1804
oil on canvas
unframed: 81.5 x 100.5 cm.; 32⅛ x 39⅝ in.;
framed: 95.6 x 114.7 cm.; 37⅝ x 45 in.
Probably anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 27 December 1944;
Anonymous sale, Paris, Beaussant & Lefèvre, 29 January 2015, lot 16.
This lively and informal painting gives a glimpse into daily life at a French military base. Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines is best known for his historic paintings of the French Revolution and for his grand compositions of battles and military campaigns. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1791 and in 1810 he was awarded the Grand Prix for his painting The Passage of the Danube by Napoleon before the Battle of Wagram (English Heritage, The Wellington Collection, Apsley House).1