Généraux & officiers supérieurs
A French single-sheet colour print from about 1860, titled Généraux & officiers supérieurs, published by Nouvelle Imagerie d'Épinal for a popular audience as a Bilderbogen-style military costume plate. The picture shows five senior French officers standing side by side in full dress uniforms, with plumed bearskin and shako headgear, richly braided jackets in blue, red and yellow, sashes, epaulettes and sabres. A designer could take from it the bold flat colour blocking, the rhythmic repetition of uniform silhouettes, and the decorative detailing of nineteenth-century French military dress.
