Champigny, December 1870
Édouard Detaille · 1879
Why it's great
French troops attack in the snow at Champigny in December 1870, trying to break out of besieged Paris. Édouard Detaille painted this battle in 1879, as part of a wave of paintings in France remembering the war of 1870.
🏛️ Part of history
The Franco-Prussian War & the Paris Commune (1870–1871) — French troops attack in the snow at Champigny in December 1870, trying to break out of besieged Paris.
Where to see it
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Édouard Detaille was a French painter born in Paris in 1848. He studied with Meissonier and became the most celebrated painter of the French army, making huge, accurate pictures of the war of 1870 and of Napoleon's troops. He lived in Paris and died there in 1912.
