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Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier : The siege of Paris wikidata:Q17493359 reasonator:Q17493359
Artist
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815–1891) wikidata:Q354786 q:cs:Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
Description French sculptor, painter, politician and illustrator
Date of birth/death 21 February 1815 Edit this at Wikidata 31 January 1891 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Lyon Paris
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artist QS:P170,Q354786
Title
Deutsch: Belagerung von Paris
le siège de Paris en 1870
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre allegory Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Français : Le Siège de Paris , huile sur toile d'Ernest Meissonier, 1870-1884, Paris, musée d'Orsay.
« Mémorial des morts » et « symphonie héroïque de la France », le tableau représente allégoriquement la ville de Paris comme une femme entourée de cadavres et de blessés surplombés par l'aigle prussien juché sur le bras du spectre de la famine.
Date 1884
date QS:P571,+1884-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 54 cm (21.2 in); width: 71 cm (27.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,54U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,71U174728
Deutsch: Musée d'Orsay
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Deutsch: Historienmalerei
References Bertrand Tillier, La Commune de Paris, révolution sans images ? Politique et représentations dans la France républicaine (1871-1914) , Seyssel, Champ Vallon, coll. « Époques », 2004, 526 p., ISBN 2-87673-390-0 , p. 217-218.
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Source/Photographer The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN : 3936122202 .
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