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BARON LOUIS FRANCOIS LEJEUNE (1776-1848)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 405 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON See also:LOUIS See also:FRANCOIS See also:LEJEUNE (1776-1848)  , See also:French See also:general, painter, and lithographer, was See also:born at See also:Versailles . As aide-de-See also:camp to General See also:Berthier he took an active See also:part in many of the See also:Napoleonic See also:campaigns, which he made the subjects of an important See also:series of See also:battle-pictures . The See also:vogue he enjoyed is due to the truth and vigour of his See also:work, which was generally executed from sketches and studies made on the battlefield . When his battle-pictures were shown at the See also:Egyptian See also:Hall in See also:London, a See also:rail had to be put up to protect them from the eager crowds of sightseers . Among his See also:chief See also:works are " The Entry of See also:Charles X. into See also:Paris, 6 See also:June 1825 " at Versailles; " See also:Episode of the Prussian See also:War, See also:October 1807 " at See also:Douai Museum; " See also:Marengo "(1801) ; "See also:Lodi," "Thabor," "See also:Aboukir" (1804) ; " The Pyramids " (18o6); " Passage of the See also:Rhine in 1795 " (1824), and " Moskawa " (1812) . The See also:German See also:campaign of 18o6 brought him to See also:Munich, where he visited the workshop of See also:Senefelder, the inventor of See also:lithography . See also:Lejeune was so fascinated by the possibilities of the new method that he then and there made the See also:drawing on See also:stone of his famous " Cossack " (printed by C. and T . Senefelder, ,8o6) . Whilst he was taking his See also:dinner, and with his horses harnessed and waiting to take him back to Paris, one See also:hundred proofs were printed, one of which he subsequently submitted to See also:Napoleon . The introduction of lithography into See also:France was greatly due to the efforts of Lejeune . Many of his battle-pictures were engraved by Coiny and Bovinet . See See also:Fournier-Sarloveze, Le General Lejeune (Paris, Libraire de 1'See also:art) .

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