Battle of the Pyramids

1803

Dirk Langendijk was a prolific draughtsman specializing in military scenes with numerous small figures. His style was appropriately pithy. Yet although several military encounters took place in the Netherlands during the Revolutionary period of 1789–1799, he based most of his depictions on his own imagination. It was at the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798 that Napoleon’s French army defeated the Egyptian Mamluks.