288. Yevgeny Alexandrovich LANCERAY (1848-1886) The Cossack Flag Bearer Proof in bronze with brown patina. Signed on the terrace. 65 x 39 x 15 cm. Exhibition: -Saint Petersburg, 1882, Society of Exhibitions IV. - Moscow, 1882, Pan-Russian. - Saint-Petersburg, Laneray et Aubert 1886, Société des exhibitions IV. - Moscow, Tolstoy Museum, 1998, 150th anniversary of Lanceray. Bibliography: - Lanceray, The Russian Sculptor of the Horse, by Geoffroy Sudbury and Rachel Douglas, Editions Jean-Louis Gouraud, Switzerland, 2006, illustrated p. 134 n° 1878. - Museum of History (album-catalogue, n°60 -Russian National Library (album) ; - Susse (N°105) - P. Cadet, 1992, p. 46. The catalog of the exhibition of 1882 dates the work in question in 1878. This battlefield scene was probably inspired to Lanceray inspired to Lanceray by the campaign of the years 1877-1878 in the Balkans.