# Italian Field after the Battle of Magenta [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FATTORI, Giovanni]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 232 x 384 cm ## Commentary Battle of Magenta \(June 4, 1859\) was an engagement between France and Austria in the Franco-Piedmontese war during the second war of Italian independence \(1859–61\). The outcome was a narrow French victory. The scene of the fighting was Magenta, 19 km west of Milan, in Austrian-dominated northern Italy. It involved some 54.000 French troops under Napoleon III and 58.000 Austrian troops under General Franz Gyulai. The French victory, which came after a highly disorganized battle, cost 4.000 men killed and wounded and 600 missing; Austrian losses were 5.700 killed and wounded and more than 4.000 missing. ## Related artworks - [Italian Field after the Battle of Magenta \(detail\)]() - [Self-Porrtrait]() - [Signora Martelli in Castiglioncello]() - [Soldiers at Rest]() - [Southwesterly Wind]() - [The Haystack]() - [The Palmieri's Bathing Rotunda]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()