Rochambeau's Victory at Yorktown - Auguste Jean-Baptiste Vinchon

Rochambeau's Victory at Yorktown

Auguste Jean-Baptiste VINCHON
(Paris 1789 - Bains d'Ems 1855)

Oil on canvas
H. 0,19 m; W. 0,23 m
Inscription on the stretcher: Auguste Vinchon. YORKTOWN (1781) / Victoire de Rochambeau sur les Anglais

Date: ca. 1830

Provenance: Private collection, France

Related works: An oil sketch depicting the same subject is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours (oil on canvas, H. 0,61 m x W. 0,695 m, Inv. 926-8-8) : Véronique Moreau, Peintures du XIXe siècle 1800-1914. Catalogue raisonné, musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, 2001, v. 2, p. 740. A similar oil sketch (oil on canvas, H. 0,44 m x W. 0,49 m) came up in an auction in Tours in 1998, no. 25.


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