Sotheby will sell on January 27, 2012 13 works from The Forbes Collection that depict the Battle of Champigny, one of the final engagements of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.
On Decembre 1870 Édouard Detaille exhibited the primary version of his work Champigny. Its first version of this composition is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Sotheby’s January auction will include another version from The Forbes Collection.
Visitors to the Panorama National viewed the work from a raised platform in the center of the building, which was meant to be Signal Hill where the morning’s battle commenced.
The Panorama de Champigny was a tremendous success and was soon followed by Detaille and de Neuville’s Panorama de Rezonville, featuring another military campaign in the Franco-Prussian War.
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January 26, 2012
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