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La Barricade, scène de la Commune de Paris   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Édouard Manet

Printed by: Lemercier & Cie
Title
La Barricade, scène de la Commune de Paris
Description
English: Group of National Guard soldiers executing Parisian Communard on street corner. 1871
Lithograph on chine collé
Date 1871
date QS:P571,+1871-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 468 millimetres
Width: 332 millimetres (max.)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1949,0411.3337
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(Text from 'From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec', BM 1978, cat.17) Both this print and 'Guerre Civile' were inspired by scenes from the Commune - the civil war between Paris and the rest of France which followed the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian war. The battle was fought with appalling savagery for a week in May 1871 and left 20,000 Communards dead. Here a Communard is being summarily executed by the National Guard in front of a makeshift barricade.

The lithograph provides an interesting example of Manet's creative process. The six members of the firing squad in this print are an almost exact replica in reverse of the first six soldiers in the execution of Maximilien. A drawing in Budapest has on the one side a tracing which reproduces in reverse the soldiers from the Execution. On the other side is Manet's first idea for this composition, and it appears that the firing squad was simply traced through from the other side. One consequence of the reversal is that all the soldiers in the lithograph are left-handed.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1949-0411-3337
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