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In 1956 most people only knew civil War uniforms from black and white drawings but in the early 1950s some artists started to bring out color prints showing uniforms. Not all artists produced prints with accurate uniforms depictions. One of the artist putting out uniform prints was French artist Raymond Desvarreux Larpenteur who was born in Paris in 1876. He is best known for his American Revolutionary War uniform prints but did put out at least 4 color plates showing Confederate uniforms and 2 color plates showing Union uniforms. Here is a 1956 print from Alfred B. C. Bason publishing.
Larpenteur was good artist and by the standards of the day and not really to bad with some prints such as the one above. Some of his other Civil War uniform prints were less accurate. Still he did help help lead the way in showing Civil War uniforms.
Larpenteur was good artist and by the standards of the day and not really to bad with some prints such as the one above. Some of his other Civil War uniform prints were less accurate. Still he did help help lead the way in showing Civil War uniforms.