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| Keywords: Alphonse de Neuville - The Attack at Dawn - Walters 3740.jpg 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 the Franco-Prussian War 1870 71 de Neuville a veteran of the war specialized in works glorifying his country's heroic resistance rather than its military defeat He took exceptional efforts to re-create the subjects factually revisiting the battlefields and studying the weapons uniforms and other paraphernalia of war 1877 oil on canvas cm 146 5 222 ; size cm 204 5 279 4 19 7 accession number 37 40 4911 Goupil et Cie Paris prior to 1878 mode of acquisition unknown William T Walters Baltimore 1877-1878 by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters ca 1878 inscription lower right Alf de Neuville 1877 signature/date ~ Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1999-2000 place of origin The Hague Walters Art Museum license 2D 1877 paintings 19th-century paintings from the Netherlands Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville Culture of Jura department Dutch paintings in the United States French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Off the Wall Baltimore 1870s paintings from France Paintings of snow-covered villages Alphonse de Neuville Franco-Prussian War Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet | ||||
