Caption:
'Michel Ney', (1933). Portrait of French soldier Marshal Michel Ney (1769-1815). One of Napoleon's most prominent generals, Ney led the rearguard of the Grande Armee's retreat from Moscow in 1812 and commanded the French centre at Waterloo. After a miniature by Jean-Baptiste Isabey. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]