Departure of the Conscripts in 1807
1808 · Musée Carnavalet, Paris
historicalIn the same Salon of 1808 hung two other pictures that seemed a universe away from Gros's epic conception but also alluded to the German campaign and its casualties. Louis-Leopold Boilly was known mainly as a painter of small, intimate narratives, humorous, sentimental and largely apolitical. As a young man he had painted a picture of a triumphant Marat but panicked that it would embroil him too far in revolutionary affairs; he had since steered clear of Napoleonic propaganda.
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