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Chigot depicts a desperate wounded French soldier, unable to stand in the snow. The picture represents the defeat of France but also offers hope that she will rise again. Chigot's patriotic military paintings were popular with many French people, a fact that was recognised by the French
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in 1904. His grandson, the surgeon Paul-Louis Chigot reminisced about a studio visit in 1913. Chigot junior recalled the smell of apples and a studio full of military memorabilia - from Arab drums on the floor, guns on the wall, to canvases of military life occupying every available wall space. The
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As soon as you touch the military genre, one almost falls into sentimentality. This is what Mr. Chigot prevents, recalling a painful memory of the
Eastern Army, which after glorious exploits took refuge in Switzerland. The scene is dismal. On a plain covered with snow, the sun is eerily yellow... A
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Chigot's reputation rests on his military paintings. He drew inspiration by evoking memories of the combat theatres of
Algeria in which he had served. He produced numerous paintings of soldiers from the conflict: the bugler sounding the charge at the Battle of Sidi – Brahim, the local Algerian
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in 1815. Retired from the army his father was variously an inn keeper and an employee of the
Administration des droits reunis (the agency charged with the collection of indirect taxes in France) and from 1852 the manager of a tobacco shop at
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Alphonse Chigot died at his house in
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had a deep psychological effect on France. Chigot responded by painting some of his most eye catching and moving canvasses. In 1888 he produced a huge canvas entitled
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scenes of the oriental life, the sparkling fantasies, the golden rocks scorched in the warm light... the red sunsets of the desert
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and from Jules Leonard. Clearly a strong willed person he does not seem to have been much interested in classical art preferring
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on 14 August 1844. The French forces routed a larger but poorly organised Moroccan force under Sultan
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