Uniform of the French Horse Artillery. In shako with plume, hussar-style blue jacket with red frogging and breeches with red piping, black boots and sabretache, armed with sabre. Mouton shabrack. Artillerie a cheval. Handcoloured woodcut by Henri Désiré Porret after an illustration by Hippolyte Bellangé from Laurent de l’Ardeche’s Histoire de Napoleon, Paris, 1840.

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