Charles Castellani (1838 -1913), Somosierra, 1898.
Oil on board, size 80 x 62 cm.
Signed and dated p.d.: C. Castellani 1898
Board cracked longitudinally. Reinforced at the back with a slatted structure. Original frame 100 x 84 cm.
The painting depicts an attack by Polish Cheval Legers of the Guard on cannons in the Spanish position at the Somosierra Pass.
The work will be available for viewing on 10.12.2022 (Saturday) from 11.00 - 17.00 in the Antiquarian shop at 25 Emilii Plater Street, 00-688 Warsaw.
Biography
Charles Castellani-Leonzi, born in Brussels on May 26, 1838, died in Bois-le-Roi on 1 st December 1913, naturalized in France in 1874. Charles Castellani is known as a panoramic painter who realized, among other things, the Battle of Waterloo, exhibited in Brussels in the rotunda bearing his name, the Castellani rotunda , built in 1879. In 1883, he made a panorama of the last day of the Paris Commune for the Paris rotunda on the rue de Bondy, which gave rise to three posters by Léon Choubrac and was a success for almost a year. He specialized in battle scenes, particularly of the Napoleonic era.
