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The Reading of the Bulletin of the Grande Armée
Painting by Louis-Léopold Boilly From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Reading of the Bulletin of the Grande Armée is an 1807 genre painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly.[1][2] It depicts a family studying one of the Napoleonic bulletins issued by the French Emperor Napoleon. Posted during Napoleon's victorious War of the Fourth Coalition against Kingdom of Prussia, the family are following the progress of the campaign on a map.[3]
It was exhibited at the Salon of 1808 at the Louvre in Paris. Today the painting is in the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri, having been acquired in 1904.[4]
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