The Charge of the 9th Cuirassiers at Morsbronn
Édouard Detaille · 1873
Why it's great
French armored cavalry charge through the narrow streets of the village of Morsbronn on August 6, 1870, in a brave but hopeless attack against Prussian infantry. Édouard Detaille painted this charge in 1873.
🏛️ Part of history
The Franco-Prussian War & the Paris Commune (1870–1871) — French armored cavalry charge through the narrow streets of the village of Morsbronn on August 6, 1870, in a brave but hopeless attack against Prussian infantry.
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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.
