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Marshal Ney at Eylau
Presented by Charles Pratt 1940
actions: expressive
adults
animals: mammals
army
attacking
battle
birth to death
courage
death
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
groups
hill
history
horse
landscape
man
military
military
named individuals
Napoleonic Wars, 1796-1815
Ney, Michel, Marshal
objects
people
riding
snow
society
soldier
sword
transport: land
weapon, firing / explosion
weapons
weather
work and occupations
painting oil paint wood
Marshal Ney at Eylau
support: 356 × 251 mm
frame: 540 × 430 × 50 mm
Presented by Charles Pratt 1940
<p><b>N05204</b>	MARSHAL NEY AT EYLAU 1913</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘R. Caton Woodville 1913’ b.l.
<br/>Oil on panel, 14×9 7/8 (35·5×25).
<br/>Presented by Charles Pratt 1940.
<br/><i>Coll:</i>
Henry Graves &amp; Co.; acquired by Charles Pratt <i>c.</i> 1917.</p>
<p>Another <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a>, ‘Marshal Ney at Waterloo’, signed and dated 1914, was presented by the artist to A. G. Temple in January 1916. It is on <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/panel" title="Glossary definition for 'Panel'"><span>panel</span></a> and of about the same size as <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/woodville-marshal-ney-at-eylau-n05204" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05204</span></a> and was in 1957 in the possession of D. G. C. Hicks, Leatherhead. It appears to be the last of the series of four depicting scenes from the Napoleonic campaigns. (See <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/woodville-napoleon-crossing-the-bridge-to-lobau-island-n05202" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05202</span></a> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/woodville-poniatowskis-last-charge-at-leipzig-n05205" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05205</span></a>.)</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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actions: expressive adults animals: mammals army attacking battle birth to death courage death emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas groups hill history horse landscape man military military named individuals Napoleonic Wars, 1796-1815 Ney, Michel, Marshal objects people riding snow society soldier sword transport: land weapon, firing / explosion weapons weather work and occupations