Military iconography of the period of the First Empire in France as a symbol of the era (on the example of the portrait of the huntsman of the 13th light regiment A. Picard)
Based on the critical analysis of an unknown source discovered by the author in the American archive, new approaches are considered in the study of military iconography of the First Empire in France. On the one hand, the collective portrait of a certain regiment of the French army at the beginning of 1812 is recreated and, on the other, an attempt is made through a hidden cultural code and complex language emblems of the era to understand a particular person of the past.