This is a painting of a young Napoleonic Line Infantry
officer resting between dances at a ball.
He is wearing his dress uniform jacket with skin-tight
doeskin britches, silk stockings , dancing shoes and a white silk stock.
Napoleon stole such a march on Wellington in 1815 that some
officers left the Duchess of Richmond’s ball in Brussels with no opportunity to
change into battle dress, spending the whole of the Battle of Waterloo in their
best dancing uniforms.
Until next time
Adieu
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