Departure of the Conscripts
| Departure of the Conscripts | |
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| Artist | Louis-Léopold Boilly |
| Year | 1808 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, history painting |
| Dimensions | 84.5 cm × 138 cm (33.3 in × 54 in) |
| Location | Musée Carnavalet, Paris |
Departure of the Conscripts (French: Les conscrits de 1807 défilant devant la porte Saint-Denis) is an 1808 history painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly.[1][2][3] Set during the ongoing Napoleonic Wars, it depicts young men of the 1807 class of conscript being assembled in front of the Porte Saint-Denis monument in the city.[4]
It was exhibited at the Salon of 1808. Today it is in the collection of the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.[5]
References
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[edit]- Boime, Albert. A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 2: Art in an Age of Bonapartism, 1800-1815. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
- Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century: Before impressionism. National Gallery of Art, 2000.
- Hosler, John D. Seven Myths of Military History. Hackett Publishing, 2022.
- Sérullaz, Arlette. French Painting: The Revolutionary Decades, 1760-1830. Australian Gallery Directors Council, 1980.
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