| 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. 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.
It was exhibited at the Salon of 1808. Today it is in the collection of the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.
References
- Eitner p.3
- Sérullaz p.28
- Hosler p.83
- Boime p.47-48
- https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/en/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/les-conscrits-de-1807-defilant-devant-la-porte-saint-denis
Bibliography
- 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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