Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on canvas, signed "
M Barascudts / 1914," depicting Prussian lancers overrunning the French army during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Presented in a period gilt and gesso frame. Given the date of the painting, the artist was perhaps swept away with patriotic fervor at the onset of "The Great War."
Stretcher size 11.75 x 17.75 in.; Frame dimensions 14 x 19.75 in.
Private Collection, Denver, North Carolina Some aging and minor chips to frame.