FRENCH SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH-CENTURY

Projet de la Colomne d'Austerlitz, Place Vendôme, Paris.

Pen and black ink and gray wash on cream laid paper. 470x277 mm; 18 1/2x11 inches. Annotated in pencil, verso.

The Austerlitz Column, not the monument proposed in this work, was built from melted down cannons that Napoleon captured after the battle of Austerlitz in 1805 and more closely resembles Trajan's Column in Rome with a narrative frieze running nearly the entire height.