Tag: Pierre Georges Jeanniot
-
04 Works, The art of War, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot’s Art bearing witness to the agonies of war, with Footnotes
Pierre Georges Jeanniot was taught by his father Pierre-Alexandre Jeanniot, who for a long time was director of the art college in Dijon. He embarked on a military career, but exhibited watercolours as early as 1872 at the Paris Salon. In 1873, he exhibited his first oil painting there, Le Vernan at Nass-sous-Ste-Anne, and continued…
-
01 Work, The art of War, Pierre Georges Jeanniot’s La ligne de feu/ The line of fire, with Footnotes
The Battle of Mars-la-Tour was fought on 16 August 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, near the village of Mars-La-Tour in northeast France. One Prussian corps, reinforced by two more later in the day, encountered the entire French Army of the Rhine in a meeting engagement and, following the course of battle, the Army of the Rhine…
Zaidan Gallery 