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The Attack at Dawn Alphonse de Neuville (French, 1835 1885)
write an essay describing the work s formal features, that is its aesthetic components (i.e. scale, texture,
composition, color, mark making, materials, etc.). This is NOT a research paper and should be based solely on
The Attack at Dawn
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The scene is a French town in the Jura region, near the Swiss border.
As a bugler sounds the alarm, French troops (Algerian riflemen and
members of the Garde Mobile) rush from an inn to defend themselves
from the advancing Prussians. Rather than dwelling on France’s defeat
in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), de Neuville, a veteran of the
war, specialized in works glorifying his country’s heroic resistance
rather than its military defeat. He took exceptional eforts to recreate
the subjects factually, revisiting the battlefields and studying
the weapons, uniforms, and other paraphernalia of war.
your observations.
