Trainees, Snow Effect

Title: Trainees, Snow Effect
Artist: Augustin Pierre Bienvenu Chenu (Fleury Chenu)
Date: 1870

Augustin Pierre Bienvenu Chenu (Fleury Chenu) (1833-1875), Trainees, Snow Effect (1870), oil on canvas, 170 × 152.5 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Fleury Chenu’s father in Briançon, France, was a master tailor working for the French Sixth Regiment at the time. Chenu’s Trainees, Snow Effect from 1870 gives a good idea of the very limited preparation which the French had made as tensions mounted during the previous winter. Although a detailed realist painting, Chenu’s sky is so powerful, and sets the scene for the straggling trainees as they make their way along the icy road.

Source :
https://eclecticlight.co/2018/07/27/the-franco-prussian-war-depicting-defeat/