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    Zack White
    Apr 05, 2021

    The Greatest painting of the Napoleonic Wars?

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    This week's big Napoleonic question:


    What is the greatest painting of the Napoleonic Wars?


    Yes, I am expecting you to post an image below! And yes, I am expecting some of us to get flustered by some stellar paintings!

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    Hans - Karl Weiß
    Apr 08, 2021

    or showing one of my heroes




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    Hans - Karl Weiß
    Apr 08, 2021

    I love paintings like this




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    Hans - Karl Weiß
    Apr 08, 2021

    To show at least something contemporary - amongst else a Washington.




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    bill barry
    Apr 08, 2021

    I'm still learning how to post pictures here.


    Or was it a cruel and tragic Age?




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    Zack White
    Apr 08, 2021
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    Hi Bill, You have probably worked this out already but when you push 'reply' you'll notice a series of icons at the bottom of the message you are typing. To insert an image, just click the camera icon. You will then be able to insert any image saved on your computer.

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    bill barry
    Apr 08, 2021

    Speaking of the Napoleonic Age the picture must include the man. Next was it a glorious Age



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    Hans - Karl Weiß
    Apr 05, 2021

    a difficult question, one criteria for me, it must be contemporary or near contemporary, so artists of choice from my side would be Albrecht Adam or Kobell - but the what of those great paintings they created?

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    john fortune
    Apr 05, 2021

    Officier de chasseurs à cheval de la garde impériale chargeant, by Theodore Gericault (1812) seems to me to epitomise the other face of the era in contrast to the Goya. There are of course others.

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    tomholmberg
    Apr 05, 2021
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    Maybe this is a better example: https://twitter.com/epichistorytv/status/1233817126521253889


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    Kevin F. Kiley
    Apr 05, 2021
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    @tomholmberg It is. War is a young man's game and too many don't survive. And that is a great shame and a great loss to the families and their nations.

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    tomholmberg
    Apr 05, 2021

    I have a soft spot for the painting by Johann Baptist Seele of the battle of the Teufelsbrücke. Very dramatic in all aspects.

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    Zack White
    Apr 05, 2021

    I'll throw my hat into the ring in favour of Lady Butler's 'The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras' - as wonderful depiction of the multitude of emotions that individuals experience in combat, it speaks to me far more than many other, admirable pieces of art. That said, I'm no art critic, so stylisticly people may want to pick holes in that argument.

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    Kevin F. Kiley
    Apr 05, 2021

    There myriad great paintings of the period including some recent ones that are exceptional. Detaille, Meissonier, Rocco and many others can fit the category and it's a matter of taste and preference.


    Perhaps the question should have been 'What is your favorite painting of the Napoleonic Wars?'


    One of mine is The Evening of Jena which is now in the Invalides. Another is Tribute to Caesar.

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    Zack White
    Apr 05, 2021
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    As with all things, these questions are subjective and designed to generate a discussion - after all, it opens the discussion about what exactly makes a 'great' painting (which is part of the point of the thread).

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    Alfred Brans
    Apr 05, 2021

    Now we have to wait for the next greatest painting, I suspect???

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    Paul Bernardi
    Apr 05, 2021

    El tres de Mayo de 1808 en Madride by Goya. No more need be said 👍😃

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