Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Battle of Borodino

Battle of Borodino

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Original – Battle of Moscow, Sept. 7, 1812

Reason

Good EV. Quality looks nice.

Articles in which this image appears

Battle of Borodino, Napoleonic Wars

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Louis-François, Baron Lejeune

• Support as nominator – Étienne Dolet (talk) 21:38, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Was it the Battle of Moscow or the Battle of Borodino? Sca (talk) 01:32, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

@Sca: Good question. The title of the painting is Battle of Moscow, 7th September 1812 which is the same date as the Battle of Borodino. I guess it wasn't known as the "Battle of Borodino" at the time and instead was known as the Battle of Moscow, or in other words: the Battle for Moscow. Étienne Dolet (talk) 02:30, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

• Support – Historical EV, good detail. A significant event that ultimately led to the final defeat of Napoleon three years later. The Russians call it the Battle of Borodino (Бородинское сражение) while the French refer to it as the Battle of Moscow (Bataille de la Moskova), but it was fought at Borodino, 60 mi./100 km. west of Moscow. It's a French painting, but in English the event is generally known as the Battle of Borodino. – Sca (talk)

Is that the wounded Bagration in the (highlighted) foreground? (He died two weeks later after the wound became infected.) Sca (talk) 16:48, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

• Support – Jobas (talk) 19:53, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose What's the EV here? While this might be an interesting example of eccentric 18th century military art in which details of events are squished together, it bears little resemblance to the battle. Soldiers are marching in wildly different directions for no reasons, there's a random truce with a cavalry fight imediately behind it, the hospital is oddly bloodless, few of the prisoners seem very worried about the bomb about to explode near them (and where did it come from?), etc. This would have EV in an article on the painting, artist or genre if it was explained in the text, but I don't see any in articles on the battle or war. Nick-D (talk) 10:27, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Definitely a genre painting, all right. Still of value, IMO. Sca (talk) 16:42, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

• Oppose Too small for a painting of this size. Yann (talk) 22:01, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose Per Yann. It's over 2.5m across so just above min resolution really isn't sufficient in my opinion. I make it a mere 19dpi - Wolftick (talk) 02:54, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
• Withdraw as nominator. That'll save us some time and energy. Thanks everyone for your input. Étienne Dolet (talk) 03:21, 14 February 2016 (UTC)