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Source Description
The scene is a French town in the Jura region, near the Swiss border. As a bugler sounds the alarm, French troops (Algerian riflemen and members of the Garde Mobile) rush from an inn to defend themselves from the advancing Prussians. Rather than dwelling on France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), de Neuville, a veteran of the war, specialized in works glorifying his country's heroic resistance rather than its military defeat. He took exceptional efforts to re-create the subjects factually, revisiting the battlefields and studying the weapons, uniforms, and other paraphernalia of war.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
4911
label
The Attack at Dawn
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obj
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drawing
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Source metadata
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4911
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drawing
stage
normalized
title
The Attack at Dawn
description
The scene is a French town in the Jura region, near the Swiss border. As a bugler sounds the alarm, French troops (Algerian riflemen and members of the Garde Mobile) rush from an inn to defend themselves from the advancing Prussians. Rather than dwelling on France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), de Neuville, a veteran of the war, specialized in works glorifying his country's heroic resistance rather than its military defeat. He took exceptional efforts to re-create the subjects factually, revisiting the battlefields and studying the weapons, uniforms, and other paraphernalia of war.
provenance
Purchased by Goupil et Cie., Paris, possibly on May 31 1878; purchased by Wallis and Son, London, June 30 1878 [1]. Purchased by William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1877-1878; by inheritance, Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest, Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Goupil et Cie Stockbook 9, Stock no. 12781, Page 163, Row 7
date
1877
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
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3
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3
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
146.5
height
222
dimensionsRaw
H: 57 11/16 x W: 87 3/8 in. (146.5 x 222 cm); Framed H: 80 1/2 x W: 110 x D: 7 3/4 in. (204.5 x 279.4 x 19.7 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] Lower right: Alf. de Neuville; [Date] Lower right: 1877
med
oil on canvas
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2861
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EAN
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316
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