Carabiniere, 2° Reggimento Fanteria Leggera
Carabinier, 2nd Light Infantry Regiment
From the Otto Manuscript

Light infantry regiments had a company of Carabinieri (from the French carabiniers) instead of the grenadier company fielded by line regiments. This example is distingushed from his cacciatore counterparts by a fur busby and red plume, cords, epaulettes and sword knot.

The Otto manuscript appears to have been painted in the summer of 1807, possibly by the German artist Carl Wilhelm Kolbe but more probably by an unknown French artist. It contains over a hundred figures, mostly of French subjects but with a small contingent of Italians.

Source

DEMPSEY, G. C. (1994), Napoleon's Soldiers - The Grande Armée of 1807 as Depicted in the Paintings of the Otto Manuscript, Arms & Armour Press, London

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Carabiniere, 2° Reggimento Fanteria Leggera Carabinier, 2nd Light Infantry Regiment From the Otto Manuscript

Source

Carabiniere, 2° Reggimento Fanteria Leggera
Carabinier, 2nd Light Infantry Regiment
From the Otto Manuscript