Abstract
In the wake of the French Revolution, artists faced the challenge of representing contemporary military history without allegorizing it. Gros's Battle of Nazareth and Lejeune's Battle of Marengo represent two new pictorial rhetorics that responded to a new ideology of war. These transformations in French battle painting raised the issue of what people could accept as art, a contemporary reception that the essay also considers.
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