Historical military print of a Grenadier of the Guard
at Elba by Horace Vernet. Napoleonic art print of Grenadier and Polish
Lancers, part of Napoleon's bodyguards while Napoleon was in exile in
Elba.
A Grenadier of the Guard at Elba by Horace Vernet.
Wearing patched white trousers and gaiters made of mattress ticking. In
the mid distance, officers of the Polish Lancers and the Guard. Napoleon
stands on the distant cliff. To the right a ship flies a tricolour. The
Elba battalion was Napoleons bodyguard in exile, comprising six companies
of Guardsmen, 100 artillery men and a crew of 21 seamen, They formed the
nucleus of the Imperial Guard in 1815.
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