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 held at the Louvre. 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
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