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Marshal Ney Supporting the Rear Guard during the Retreat from Moscow

Image credit: Manchester Art Gallery

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Large-scale, snow covered war scene, depicting the retreat of Napoleon's army from Moscow. In the centre of the composition is a group of soldiers huddled together between the frozen trunk of a tree and a broken cart; standing within the group is the subject of the painting, Marshal Ney, who wears a bicorne hat. He is forward-facing and armed, his head turned to the right and his hand touching the shoulder of a wounded soldier. The soldiers on the far side of the group fire their weapons in defence. To the left of the composition is a cart laden with figures of the wounded follow a long procession of retreating soldiers, marching through the snow along a road beneath a bank covered with fir trees, protected from the rear by Marshal Ney and his group.

Title

Marshal Ney Supporting the Rear Guard during the Retreat from Moscow

Date

1856

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 179.8 x W 301 cm

Accession number

1882.7

Acquisition method

transferred from the Royal Manchester Institution, 1882

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed and dated at right bottom corner: Ade. Yvon. 1856

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