The Siege of Kosel is a large oil on canvas painting completed in 1808 by the German landscape artist Wilhelm von Kobell.

He had left his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte to carry out a mopping up exercise, involving the capture of a small number of fortified towns, including Kosel.

[2] To celebrate the successful campaign, Maximilian (or otherwise Crown Prince Ludwig) later commissioned Kobell to produce a series of 12 large canvases to record the allies victorious engagements.

The Siege of Kosel was the first in the series and, according to the inscription on the back of the painting, depicts the repulsing by the allies of a Prussian sortie (i.e. attempted breakout).

This first canvas featured a stationary assembly of commanders, illuminated by the early morning sun, looking out over the distant town and the fighting in the shaded valley below.