Uniform of a soldier in Napoleon's elite line infantry, the Grenadiers. In bearskin with brush, backpack, blue coat with white lapels, breeches, gaiters, armed with musket and sword. Grenadier a pied, ex-Garde. Handcoloured lithograph by Lorenzo Bianchi and Domenico Cuciniello after Hippolyte Lecomte from Costumi civili e militari della monarchia francese dal 1200 al 1820, Naples, 1825. Italian edition of Lecomtes Civilian and military costumes of the French monarchy from 1200 to 1820.
Uniform of a soldier in Napoleon's elite line infantry, the Grenadiers. In bearskin with brush, backpack, blue coat with white lapels, breeches, gaiters, armed with musket and sword. Grenadier a pied, ex-Garde. Handcoloured lithograph by Lorenzo Bianchi and Domenico Cuciniello after Hippolyte Lecomte from Costumi civili e militari della monarchia francese dal 1200 al 1820, Naples, 1825. Italian edition of Lecomtes Civilian and military costumes of the French monarchy from 1200 to 1820.