The Attack at Dawn

1877

222 cm 146.5 cm

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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...

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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
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