The Peace of Amiens (painting)

The Peace of Amiens (French: La Paix d'Amiens) is an 1853 history painting by the French artist Jules-Claude Ziegler depicting the signing of the Treaty of Amiens on 25 March 1802.

[1][2] The agreement, negotiated in the city of Amiens in Picardy, brought an end to the French Revolutionary War and halted fighting between Britain and France that had lasted since 1793.

In the evening the peace was short-lived with the Napoleonic Wars breaking out in May 1803.

The painting shows the scene in the Hôtel de Ville, Amiens and depicts the two principal signatories Joseph Bonaparte, the elder brother of the First Consul Napoleon and Lord Cornwallis acting on behalf of the government of Henry Addington.

The work was painted at a time when Britain and the Second French Empire under Napoleon III had become allies, fighting the Crimean War together.