2-687-810 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Napoleon and Marshal Lannes at Essling', 1809, (1896). Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) with Marshal Jean Lannes, Duc de Montebello, Prince de Sievers, who was mortally wounded at the battle of Essling in Austria, 22 May 1809. He had his left leg amputated (here shown as the right leg) and died a few days later. Engraving after the painting by E Boutigny. From Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III, by William Milligan Sloane. [The Century Co., New York, 1896]