(ed.) Napoleon’s Last Grande Armée: portraits from the Dresden and Freiberg Manuscripts, 1813

This book is a collection of c. 30 fascsimiles of the Freiberg plates and c. 130 other uniform plates and French uniform illustrations from the Brun collection. Charles Brun was a uniform artist of the early 1900s who took copies of the uniform illustrations painted during the summer armistice of the 1813 campaign by two German artists who drew illustrations of the French troops stationed around Dresden and Freiberg in Saxony. The descriptive text by Alfred Umhey is tri-lingual (French, German, and English).

About the Author
Curator of the German Army Museum at Rastatt from 1992-1995, Alfred Umhey is currently a uniform illustrations collector and an independent consultant for museums and historical exhibitions.