''The Battle of Nancy'' is an 1831 painting by

Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: Britis ...

, showing the 1477

Battle of Nancy The Battle of Nancy was the final and decisive battle of the Burgundian Wars, fought outside the walls of Nancy on 5 January 1477 by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, against René II, Duke of Lorraine, and the Swiss Confederacy. René's ...

and the death of

Charles the Bold Charles I (Charles Martin; german: Karl Martin; nl, Karel Maarten; 10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477), nicknamed the Bold (German: ''der Kühne''; Dutch: ''de Stoute''; french: le Téméraire), was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. ...

.. It is now in the

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy The Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy (french: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy), one of the oldest museums in France, is housed in one of the pavilions on Place Stanislas, in the heart of the 18th-century urban ensemble, a World Heritage Site by U ...

. Nancy's 'société royale des sciences, lettres et arts' suggested three possible subjects - the battle itself, Lorraine's victory over the Burgundians or the discovery of Charles the Bold's body - Delacroix chose the first of these, ''Dossier de l'art'', no 202 « Le musée des beaux-arts de Nancy : nouveau parcours des collections », December 2012 but did not go to Nancy in person, instead basing the work on several preparatory sketches of medieval weapons and costumes, of scenes from literature such as

Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels ''Ivanhoe'', ''Rob Roy (n ...

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Anne of Geierstein ''Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist'' (1829) is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mainly in Switzerland, shortly after the Yorkist victory at the Battle of Tewkesbury (1471). It covers the p ...

'' and of topographical maps provided by Baron Schwiter. The work is also notable for its frequent occurrence as cover art: * Gérard Chaliand (ed.) (preface by Lucien Poirier), ''The Art of War in World History : From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age'', University of California Press, 1994, 1072 p. ( et 0-520-07964-7). * the 1997 first edition of Pierre Naudin's novel ''Les Fils de Bélial'' (). * the 1999 Japanese translation of Martin Monestier's ''Duels''Martin Monestier (translated by Hiroko Otsuka), 図説決闘全書 � Duels : Les combats singuliers des origines à nos jours » Tokyo, Harashobo, 1999, 457 p. ().

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