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Etienne Prosper Berne-Bellecour (French, 1838-1910)
Embarkation Maneuver, 1882
Oil on canvas, 54 x 80 in.
Signed and dated at lower left: E. Berne-Bellecour 1882.
August Heckscher Collection. 1959.172
Berne-Bellecour was a successful painter and regular exhibitor at the Paris Salon. His paintings, inspired by the events of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, were especially popular, appealing to French pride and nationalism. The subject of this work, considered one of his masterpieces, is the departure of a regiment from a railway station.
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