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Maker(s):Raffet, Auguste
Culture:French (1804-1860)
Title:Retraite du Bataillon Sacre, a Waterloo, 18 juin 1815
Date Made:1835
Type:Print
Materials:crayon lithograph with scraping on off-white, medium weight wove paper
Measurements:sheet: 11 3/8 x 15 13/16 in.; 28.9 x 40.2 cm; image: 7 7/8 x 11 13/16 in.; 20.0 x 30.0 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1951.1896
Credit Line:Gift of Edward C. Crossett (Class of 1905)
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Description:
Napoleon's elite Imperial Guard, formed into a square, retreats across the middle ground silhouetted by smoke the army of the Allies surrounds them on all sides; the emperor is seen on a rearing horse.

Label Text:
print edition of 150, then stone broken.

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