Project Update : Ecublens Vu par les Peintres

I’ve been thinking about this project the past few days. I spent some time walking through the town of Ecublens taking some pictures and trying to imagine what I would like to draw. After some consideration I decided to go with a drawing depicting Ecublens as it was on the 12th of May 1800. The day that Napoleon reviewed two divisions of his troops before the famous crossing of the Alps to the Battle of Marengo.

I have quite a bit of research to do to get this to be somewhat credible. I will be checking the archives over the next few days. I’ll keep you posted on how it goes.

For the moment I have just done a very loose sketch of what I would like to depict. Click the text to see the Esplanade Bonaparte from Google Maps.