Subcategory Artworks

Hand‑coloured lithograph, “The French Army in the Peloponnese”

Description

Depiction of French soldiers in the Peloponnese after the arrival of Ioannis Kapodistrias. The French Expeditionary Corps (1828–1833) was the military force dispatched to the Peloponnese during the Greek Revolution with the objective of liberating the region from Ottoman–Egyptian control.