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Collectors of the armies of the American Civil War are familiar with the following:
"Numerous Zouave regiments were organized from soldiers of the United States of America who adopted the name and the North African-inspired uniforms during the American Civil War. The Union army had more than 70 volunteer Zouave regiments throughout the conflict, while the Confederates fielded about 25 Zouave companies".
Yesterday I was in New Haven at the Yale University Art Gallery and saw the painting below simply entitled Zouave(1856-62) by French artist Thomas Couture a good example of the documentation of one of the visual sources of this style for North Americans in the progressively globalized culture of the 19th Century. Couture later trained a number of American artists in Paris, the most famous being Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins. For comparison I have added a modern recreation of a member of the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry, Duryee’s Zouaves, one of the most famous Union Zouave regiments.
"Numerous Zouave regiments were organized from soldiers of the United States of America who adopted the name and the North African-inspired uniforms during the American Civil War. The Union army had more than 70 volunteer Zouave regiments throughout the conflict, while the Confederates fielded about 25 Zouave companies".
Yesterday I was in New Haven at the Yale University Art Gallery and saw the painting below simply entitled Zouave(1856-62) by French artist Thomas Couture a good example of the documentation of one of the visual sources of this style for North Americans in the progressively globalized culture of the 19th Century. Couture later trained a number of American artists in Paris, the most famous being Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins. For comparison I have added a modern recreation of a member of the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry, Duryee’s Zouaves, one of the most famous Union Zouave regiments.
