Militaria — A127: Art History, old and rare books, manuscripts
Littret de Montigny, full name Claude-Antoine Littret de Montigny, was a French painter, engraver, and publisher.
Among de Montigny's other works, his album in which he depicted a variety of uniforms and flags of the French army under Louis XV, accompanied by a brief description, stands out, providing a unique insight into the French army of the time.
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet, more commonly known as simply Horace Vernet was a 19th-century French painter, one of the greatest representatives of the battlefield genre of his era.
Horace Vernet also painted paintings on historical and mythological themes, portraits and landscapes. Among his many masterpieces are many works that describe the exotic world of the Middle East and North Africa. His biography is filled with numerous travels around the world, where he drew inspiration and new ideas for his works.
Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel was a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings. Along with Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered one of the two most prominent German painters of the 19th century, and was the most successful artist of his era in Germany. First known as Adolph Menzel, he was knighted in 1898 and changed his name to Adolph von Menzel.
His popularity in his native country, owing especially to his history paintings, was such that few of his major paintings left Germany, as many were quickly acquired by museums in Berlin. Menzel's graphic work (and especially his drawings) were more widely disseminated; these, along with informal paintings not initially intended for display, have largely accounted for his posthumous reputation.
Charles-Pierre Victor Pajol, known as Count Pajol, was a French cavalry soldier, historian, painter and sculptor.
Pajol commanded the French cavalry during the Crimean War of 1853-1856, becoming a division general in 1870. He was the author of several sculptural monuments and historical works. Pajol also left beautiful sketches of Russian military costume and portraits of Tsar Nicholas I and his sons.
Charles Pajol's father, Count Claude-Pierre Pajol (1772-1844), was a Napoleonic general who led the French advance guard in Moscow.
