Brigade-General Louis-François, Baron Lejeune was a French Army officer, painter, lithographer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. His memoirs have frequently be
Portrait of Lejeune after a Jean-Urbain Guérin portrait
The Battle of the Pyramids (1808)
The Battle of Marengo (1801)
Battle of Aboukir, 27 July 1799 (1804)
The Battle of Borodino or the Battle of the Moskva took place on the outskirts of Moscow near the village of Borodino on 7 September 1812, during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. The Grande Armée fought
Louis-François Lejeune
…the eager crowds of sightseers. He is best known for his paintings of the Battle of Guisando, which appeared in 1819 to enormous success, and of the Battle of Borodino, his masterwork. Many of his battle-pictures were engraved by Jacques Joseph Coiny and Edme Bovinet. He also produced several studies of uniforms in…
The Battle of the Moskva Louis-François Lejeune, 1822
Napoleon I on the Borodino Heights, by Vasily Vereshchagin (1897)
Battle of Borodino by Peter von Hess, 1843. In the center it shows Bagration after being wounded.