2-995-548 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Portrait of Marshal Canrobert, for the Gallery of Versailles, painted by M. Beaucé, 1860. 'A portrait of Marshal Canrobert has just been finished...[showing] the General as he appeared in his quarters before Sebastopol...During the progress of the painting we had several times the pleasure of conversing with the Marshal in the atelier of M. Beaucé, and can therefore testify to the exactness of the resemblance in every respect even to the minutest details of the costume so often seen in the trenches around the doomed city...In March, 1854, when the Russian war broke out, General Canrobert took the command of the first division of the French army, the division that suffered so terribly in the Dobrudja. He afterwards aided most powerfully in the Crimean expedition, and sustained the first shock with the Russians in the brilliant fight at the Alma, one of the most glorious souvenirs for the allied armies... For his services in the Crimea Canrobert received the baton of Marshal of France, which entitles him to a seat in the Senate, and he is also a Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.