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Detaille made his debut as an artist at the Salon—the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts—of 1867 with a painting of Meissonier's studio. [2] At the Salon of 1868, he exhibited his first military painting, The Drummers Halt, which was based solely on his imagination of the French Revolution.
[2] [3] Such art commonly depicted the seemingly dilapidated state of the French army during the Franco-Prussian War, with the intent being to show that a revitalized national army was needed to project French power. [4] [5] Detaille, who came from a military family, served in the French army during the Siege of Paris. [6]
The Musée de l'Armée (French: [myze də laʁme]; "Army Museum") is a national military museum of France located at Les Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.It is served by Paris Métro stations Invalides, Varenne and La Tour-Maubourg
Military art remained popular during the remainder of the 19th century in most of Europe. French artists such as Ernest Meissonier , [ 26 ] Edouard Detaille , [ 27 ] and Alphonse de Neuville [ 28 ] established military genre painting in the Paris Salon . [ 29 ]
The Dog of the Regiment Wounded is a 1819 oil painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. [1] [2] It shows a battle scene from the Napoleonic Wars in which a dog, a regimental mascot, has been wounded in the fighting and is being treated by two French bandsman, a bugler of the voltigeurs and a drummer of the grenadiers.
Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (French pronunciation: [alfɔ̃s maʁi adɔlf də nøvil]; 31 May 1835 – 18 May 1885) was a French academic painter who studied under Eugène Delacroix. His dramatic and intensely patriotic subjects illustrated episodes from the Franco-Prussian War, the Crimean War, the Zulu War, and portraits of soldiers.