Lot 1787: Joseph Emanuel van Driesten (b.1853)

The battle of Waterloo
signed and dated 'J. van Driesten. 1906' (lower left) and signed and further inscribed 'Mont-St-Jean 5h1/2!/iL c'est trop tot d'une heure, mais it/faut soutenir ce qui est fait/Henry Houssaye, 1815.'/Fair à Paris le IX - 111 - MCMV1./J. van Driesten' (on a label attached to the backing)
bodycolour
14 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. (36.3 x 54.6 cm.)

The quote is from the French historian Henry Houssaye's 1815, II, Waterloo, 1899.

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