A very good quality titled equestrian figure of Crimean War interest depicting the French War Minister Marshal Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud.
Arnaud is depicting in military garb sitting on a brown horse with a plumed hat in his right hand. The figure is titled ‘MARSHAL ARNAUD’ in raised gilt capitals.
Arnaud commanded the army of the East during the Crimean War, alongside his British colleague Lord Raglan. He commanded allied troops to victory at the Battle of the Alma in September 1854 but died aboard ship from stomach cancer just a week later. A polarising figure, he was celebrated in France by state and army as a war hero, but was detested by the French intelligentsia for his brutal role in Napoleon III's coup d'état of December 1851 during which 200 Parisians, women and children among them, reportedly, were slain by Arnaud's forces.
This figure pairs with a figure of Lord Raglan, and can be displayed with an Ottoman pair in the same group of Crimean allies - Omar Pasha and Sultan Abd-ul-Medjid.
The figure is in excellent original condition with only some small nibbles to the base and an almost imperceptible nibble to the hat’s plume. Arnaud’s black boot has been retouched. A very good example.
Reference: A. & N. Harding, Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835 - 1875: Book One, p. 20, fig. 10 P
Height: 8.25”
Date: c. 1854
Provenance: The Alan D. Sturrock Collection
A very good quality titled equestrian figure of Crimean War interest depicting the French War Minister Marshal Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud.
Arnaud is depicting in military garb sitting on a brown horse with a plumed hat in his right hand. The figure is titled ‘MARSHAL ARNAUD’ in raised gilt capitals.
Arnaud commanded the army of the East during the Crimean War, alongside his British colleague Lord Raglan. He commanded allied troops to victory at the Battle of the Alma in September 1854 but died aboard ship from stomach cancer just a week later. A polarising figure, he was celebrated in France by state and army as a war hero, but was detested by the French intelligentsia for his brutal role in Napoleon III's coup d'état of December 1851 during which 200 Parisians, women and children among them, reportedly, were slain by Arnaud's forces.
This figure pairs with a figure of Lord Raglan, and can be displayed with an Ottoman pair in the same group of Crimean allies - Omar Pasha and Sultan Abd-ul-Medjid.
The figure is in excellent original condition with only some small nibbles to the base and an almost imperceptible nibble to the hat’s plume. Arnaud’s black boot has been retouched. A very good example.
Reference: A. & N. Harding, Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835 - 1875: Book One, p. 20, fig. 10 P
Height: 8.25”
Date: c. 1854
Provenance: The Alan D. Sturrock Collection
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