Tag: Alphonse de Neuville
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02 Works, The Art of War, Alphonse de Neuville’s Les dernières cartouches/ The Last Cartridges, with footnotes
September 1st 1870, and French soldiers, besieged inside a house in the Ardennes’ village of Bazeilles, are fighting a desperate battle against the Prussian invader… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Alphonse de Neuville’s Before the attack, with footnotes
Alphonse de Neuville presented two paintings to the 1859 Salon, both portrayals of the Siege of Sebastopol: Assault of 15 June 1855, four o’clock in the morning, and Assaut du 18 Juillet. These paintings were acclaimed by the Salon and, along with his monumental painting Bataille de Magenta [The Battle of Magenta], marked a turning point…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Alphonse de Neuville’s Le Cimetière de Saint-Privat, with footnotes
Alphonse de Neuville, like Edouard Detaille, was one of the main artists to paint episodes from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the theme recurs frequently in his prolific production. At the Salon of 1873, where he exhibited The Last Cartridges, an episode in the fighting around Sedan in September, he was a great success…
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