This is one of my favourite Napoleonic Wars subject paintings, by German artist Carl Röchling (1855 – 1920). It depicts the 2nd Prussian Infantry Regiment, the 1st Pommeranian, assaulting Plancenoit during the Battle of Waterloo. Born in Saarbrücken, he studied from 1875 to 1880 in the Karlsruhe Academy of Arts and later in the Prussian Academy of Arts. He specialised in military paintings, especially those featuring the Prussian Army, and the Franco-Prussian war in particular, but also did some paintings of American Civil War battles.
I first saw this painting on the cover of my copy of Albert Nofi’s The Waterloo Campaign and it had a lot to do with my buying a box of Perry plastic Prussians!
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