MARENGO. 



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his Le Ckevj[l) has redrawn these two animals unmounted. 

 He has, however, given somewhat exaggerated action to the 

 near hind leo^ of his first horse. A well-known Engflish 

 artist drew a picture of Napoleon's charger, Marengo [see 

 Fig. 2 1 1), balancing himself on a fore and hind leg of tb" 



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Fig. 209. — Meissonier's " 1814." 



same side ! Possibly he followed the bad (in this instance) 

 example of Gericault [see Fig. 210). Artists of the present 

 time have no excuse for similar lapses into error ; for they 

 have the results of the researches of Marey, Muybridge, 

 Anschlitz and other photographers to guide them. Figs. 



2 A 



