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Title
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On a Battlefield
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Actual Title
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An Interrupted Duel
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Date (Painted or Exhibited)
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1868
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First Exhibited Location
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Royal Academy
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Catalog Number
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87
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Catalog Description
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Flowers bloom where men have fought and bled. ("I sometimes think that never blows so red The rose as were some buried Caesar bled.") But to the mourner there is still sorrow in the air.
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Curators Notes
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The painting is an alternate. It has been chosen as an example of the artist's style because the date aligns with the exhibition.
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Alt-Text
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A woman in a white dress pleads with a man holding her hands as two other men and two women watch outside a rustic house, in a dramatic historical scene with tense body language and expressive faces.
