title: Jean Baptiste-Jules Bernadotte, Prince de Ponte-Corvo, roi de Suède, Maréchal de France (1763-1844)

artist: Joseph Nicolas Jouy

date: 1852, original painting by Kinson: 1804

medium: Oil on canvas

dimensions: size cm 215 140

current location: Institution:Versailles <!--within the institution-->

source: [link nationalmuseum.se] - Photo by Gérard Blot. Joconde|000PE004812

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nationalmuseum.se - Photo by Gérard Blot.

title: Commune de Paris construction d'une barricade

artist:

date: 19^th century

medium: technique watercolor

current location: Institution:Musée Carnavalet

source: own

credit: Own work

title: The Hötel de Ville after the Commune

artist: Auguste Hippolyte Collard

date: 1871

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art

source: Met online|190022030 TheMet

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title: The Rue Mosnier with Flags

artist: Édouard Manet

date: 1878

medium: Oil on canvas

dimensions: Unframed: 65.4 x 80 cm (25 3/4 x 31 1/2 in.) Framed [outer dim] (Display): 96.5 x 112.4 x 11.4 cm (38 x 44 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.)

current location: Institution:Getty Museum

source: Getty Museum online|825

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description: To commemorate the recent Exposition Universelle, itself a celebration of luxury and prosperity, the French government declared June 30, 1878, a national holiday. The holiday, called the Fête de la Paix (Celebration of Peace), also marked France's recovery from the disastrous Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and the bloody, divisive Paris commune that followed. From his second-floor window, Édouard Manet captured the holiday afternoon with his most precise, staccato brushwork in a patriotic harmony of the reds, whites, and blues of the French flag that waves from the new buildings' windows.
The urban street was a principal subject of Impressionist and Modernist painting; many artists aimed to show not only the transformation and growth of the Industrial Age but how it also affected society. Manet's eyes saw both elegant passengers in hansom cabs and, in the foreground, a worker carrying a ladder. The hunched amputee on crutches, perhaps a war veteran or beggar, passes by fenced-in debris left from the construction of a new train track. Manet's sensitivity to the associated costs and sacrifices tempered his optimistic view of national pride and newfound prosperity.

title: Castle of Becon

artist: Braquehais, Bruno, 1823-1875

date: between 1870 and 1871

medium: ru 1=Эстампы, фотографии fr 1=Images, photographies en 1=Prints, Photographs zh 1=图像, 摄影作品 pt 1=Imagens, Fotografias ar 1=مطبوعات، صور فوتوغرافية es 1=Imágenes, Fotografías

dimensions: en 1=1 photograph : albumen paper, black and white ; 16 x 21.1 centimeters

current location: ru|1=Национальная библиотека Бразилии fr|1=Bibliothèque nationale du Brésil en|1=National Library of Brazil zh|1=巴西国家图书馆 pt|1=Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil ar|1=‌مكتبة البرازيل الوطنية es|1=Biblioteca Nacional de Brasil

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description: The Franco-Prussian War was brought about by rising tensions between France and Prussia in the 1860s. France, under Emperor Napoleon III, was determined to check the growth of Prussian power and avenge what it saw as a series of diplomatic humiliations. Prussia, under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, believed that a Prussian-led war of the German states against France would be a decisive act leading to creation of a unified German empire. The conflict began on July 19, 1870, when France declared war. The French army proved woefully unprepared and suffered a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Sedan, leaving open the road to Paris. By September 19, the Germans had completely surrounded the city and begun a siege that was to last more than four months. Cut off from supplies from the countryside, the Parisians held out by eating dogs, cats, and even most of the animals in the Paris zoo. The trees on the Champs-Elysées and in parks were cut down and burned for fuel. On January 5, the German armies began a bombardment of the city, which lasted several hours each night for a period of 23 nights. About 12,000 shells fell on Paris neighborhoods, killing some 400 people. Paris surrendered on January 28, effectively ending the war. The French defeat was followed by a popular uprising and the establishment, in March 1871, of the Paris commune, a revolutionary government formed in accordance with anarchist and socialist principles. The commune was bloodily suppressed in May 1871 by French troops under the government of Adolphe Thiers. During the brief period in which the communards controlled Paris, they dismantled the imperial column in the Place Vendôme. The suppression of the commune resulted in further extensive damage to the city, as the communards set fire to the Tuileries Palace, the Louvre, and other buildings, and as desperate fighting between the communards and counterrevolutionary forces destroyed or damaged many other structures. Siege de Paris: 1870–1871 (The siege of Paris: 1870–1871) is an album of 110 photographs by Auguste Bruno Braquehais (1823–75), a French photographer and pioneering photojournalist, documenting the siege and the effects of the bombardment, as well as destruction that took place during the Paris commune. The album is from the Thereza Christina Maria Collection, which was assembled by Emperor Pedro II of Brazil and given by him to the National Library of Brazil.
Castles and palaces; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871; Memory of the World; War damage

title: Lyon MET DP137959

artist: Édouard Baldus

date: circa 1861

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative?

dimensions: Image: 43.2 x 31.1 cm (17 x 12 1/4 in.) Mount: 46 x 60.5 cm (18 1/8 x 23 13/16 in.)

current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art

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title: Avignon MET DP137984

artist: Édouard Baldus

date: circa 1861

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative?

dimensions: Image: 31.8 x 42.2 cm (12 1/2 x 16 5/8 in.) Mount: 46 x 60.5 cm (18 1/8 x 23 13/16 in.)

current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art

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title: The Ramparts of Carcassonne MET DP150967

artist: Gustave Le Gray

date: 1851

medium: Salted paper print from waxed paper negative

dimensions: Image: 23.5 x 33.2 cm (9 1/4 x 13 1/16 in.) Mount: 31.2 x 45.2 cm (12 5/16 x 17 13/16 in.)

current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art

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title: Adriaen Coenen's Visboeck KB 78 E 54 - folios 037v (left) and 038r (right)

artist: Adriaen Coenen

date: between 1577 and 1579

medium: Manuscript with colored drawing(s) on paper

current location: Institution:Koninklijke Bibliotheek

source: Koninklijke Bibliotheek

credit: This media file is from the collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, part of which is available on Wikimedia Commons.