The Expeditionary Corps Embarks for Minorca at the Port of Marseille Under the Command of Marshal de Richelieu information

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The Expeditionary Corps Embarks for Minorca at the Port of Marseille Under the Command of Marshal de Richelieu is a major oil on canvas painting by Jean-Joseph Kapeller, signed and dated 26 March 1756. It was acquired by the French state in 1941 and assigned to musée Cantini in Marseille.^[1]

It was first exhibited on 29 August 1756 in the 'salle du Modèle' at the Académie de peinture de Marseille with the title The Port of Marseille and the Embarkation of War Munitions and Shot for the Expedition to the Island of Minorca, by Order and in the Presence of Monsieur the Marshal de Richelieu.^[2]