In the Trenches

1874

96.5 cm 57.7 cm

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Members of the Garde Mobile (French expeditionary forces) are huddled in a shallow trench during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. De Neuville has conveyed the general misery and tedium between battles that is associated with trench warfare. The artist complained that his de...

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Goupil et Cie., Paris (date and mode of acquisition unknown) (photograph no. 1405); Henry Wallis, London (date and mode of acquisition unknown); Purchased by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, September 30, 1878 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 462.
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