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Create new listAndrieu, Bertrand (French, 1761-1822); b. Bordeaux, and Brenet, Nicolas-Guy-Antoine (French, 1773-1846); b. Paris, and Denon, Dominique-Vivant (French, 1747-1825); b. Chalons-sur-Saône
RUSSIA/FRANCE, Bataille d’Eylau [Battle of Eylau], 1807, a copper medal by B. Andrieu and N.-G.-A. Brenet for D.-V. Denon, laureate bust of Napoléon to right, rev. Napoléon in the guise of Diomedes, seated to right on a pile of weapons and flags, holding a sword and a small statue of Victory, 40mm, 32.88g (Bramsen 628; Alexander 83; CGMP p.63; BDM I, 274; Slg. Julius 1727; cf. WAG 162, 134; cf. Schulman 383, 900; cf. Noonans 311, 684). About extremely fine £60-£80
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals.
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H.-D. Rauch Auktion 72 (Vienna), 20 September 2003, lot 1136.
The Battle of Eylau, on 7 and 8 February 1807, was a bloody and inconclusive battle between the Grande Armée and Russian troops under the command of General Levin August von Bennigsen near the town of Preussisch Eylau in East Prussia (present-day Bagrationovsk). After a contest lasting over 30 hours and finishing in the middle of the night with Russian troops withdrawing, some 15,000 men lay dead on the battlefield and Napoléon’s advance eastwards was temporarily halted
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