Excerpt from: A. v. Heyden, The Costume of the Civilized Peoples of Europe, Leipzig 1889, pp. 237 ff.
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French uniforms of the Second Empire in original lithographs by François Hippolyte Lalaisse
Below is a selection of original lithographs showing soldier types of the Second Empire by François Hippolyte Lalaisse (1812–1884). Lalaisse was an outstanding French artist and lithographer. He is known, for example, for his work: Types militaires du Troupier francais (1859).
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French Uniforms in 1850
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The Russian Army 1805 - 15.
Marcel Gayda and André Krijitsky, L'Armée Russe sous le Tsar Alexandre 1er de 1805 - 1815. Paris 1955. Only the plates No. 12-25 of a single copy (No. 247), privately hand-colored in excellent quality, are published here.