Uniform of a French Chasseur light cavalry regiment, Napoleonic era. In bearskin with brush, green coat with scarlet frogging, red pelisse, buff breeches, boots, sabre and sabretouche. Chasseur a Cheval, 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 French Chasseur light cavalry regiment, Napoleonic era. In bearskin with brush, green coat with scarlet frogging, red pelisse, buff breeches, boots, sabre and sabretouche. Chasseur a Cheval, 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.