Departure of the Conscripts

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| artist=Louis-Léopold Boilly

| year=1808

| type=Oil on canvas, history painting

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Departure of the Conscripts (French: Les conscrits de 1807 défilant devant la porte Saint-Denis) is an 1808 history painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly.Eitner p.3Sérullaz p.28Hosler p.83 Set during the ongoing Napoleonic Wars, it depicts young men of the 1807 class of conscript being assembled in front of the Porte Saint-Denis monument in the city.Boime p.47-48

It was exhibited at the Salon of 1808. Today it is in the collection of the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/en/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/les-conscrits-de-1807-defilant-devant-la-porte-saint-denis

References

Bibliography

Boime, Albert. A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 2: Art in an Age of Bonapartism, 1800-1815. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century: Before impressionism. National Gallery of Art, 2000.
Hosler, John D. Seven Myths of Military History. Hackett Publishing, 2022.
Sérullaz, Arlette. French Painting: The Revolutionary Decades, 1760-1830. Australian Gallery Directors Council, 1980.

Category:1808 paintings

Category:History paintings

Category:Napoleonic Wars in art

Category:Paintings in the Musée Carnavalet

Category:Paris in art

Category:Paintings by Louis-Léopold Boilly

Category:Artworks exhibited at the Salon of 1808