title: Eugène Delacroix La liberté guidant le peuple

artist: Eugène Delacroix

date: 1830

medium: Technique oil canvas

dimensions: Size cm 260 325

current location: Institution:Louvre

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description:

title: Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, MMA NYC, 1851

artist: Emanuel Leutze

date: 1851

medium: oil on canvas

dimensions: Size cm 378.5 647.7

current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art

source: [link The Metropolitan Museum of Art]

credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

title: La Tour St. Jacques La Boucherie à Paris ca. 1867

artist: Charles Soulier

date: circa 1867

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

dimensions: Size unit=cm height=40.7 width=30.6

current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art

source: Met online|265933 TheMet

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description: The freestanding Tour Saint-Jacques that one sees today in a park just off the rue de Rivoli in the heart of Paris is all that remains of the Gothic church of Saint-Jacques la Boucherie. Built between 1508 and 1522, the tower lost its statuary and its dozen bells during the revolution, but its basic fabric escaped the demolition visited upon the rest of the church. It was sold in 1797 and was put to use for a purpose far from its original function: as a shot tower. Droplets of molten lead formed into perfect spheres as they fell through the nearly two-hundred-foot interior of the tower into a cooling tub of water at the bottom. In 1836 the tower was bought by the City of Paris.

In the early 1850s, the tower was disengaged from the surrounding buildings, the lower part of the Tour Saint-Jacques was rebuilt to function as a civic monument, its destroyed statuary was remade, and the surrounding area was redesigned as a park. The surface of the new Square Saint-Jacques was lowered in order keep the nearby streets level, and a raised platform with steps was built as a transition between the old and new ground levels. Visitors could ascend the tower for a panoramic view of Paris. "Galignani's New Paris Guide for 1860" remarked upon the transformation: "This interesting structure now occupies the centre of an elegant square laid out as a garden, once intersected by the filthiest streets of the metropolis, haunted by vendors of rags and other commodities of a similar nature."

title: Valmy Battle painting

artist: Horace Vernet

date: 1826

medium: Oil on canvas

dimensions: size cm width=287 height=174.6

current location: :Museum:National Gallery, London

source: [link The National Gallery]

credit: The National Gallery

title: Lally-Tollendal, Trophime Gerard de, par Sergent, BNF Gallica

artist: Antoine Louis François Sergent dit Sergent-Marceau

date: 1789. 2013-06-09 for upload

source: ARK-BNF

credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France

description: Gérard de Lally-Tollendal (1751 - 1830), french politician during the french great revolution

title: Lepel(l)etier, Michel, par Garnerey (sic) et Alix, BNF Gallica

artist: Pierre-Michel Alix

date: 1794. 2013-06-22 for upload

medium: engraving

source: ARK-BNF

credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France

description: Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau (1760-1793), deputy at the "Convention Nationale", he voted in favor of the death of the king Louis XVI (361 pro, 360 contra). On 20 January 1793, the eve of the king's execution, Le Peletier was assassinated. He was therefore considered martyr, and became iconic for the revolution.

title: Gustave Le Gray, Pavillon Mollien, 1859

artist: Gustave Le Gray

date: 1859

medium: Albumen print

dimensions: Size cm height=36.7 width=47.9

current location: Institution:Getty Museum

source: Getty Museum online|70191

credit: The Getty Center, Object 70191 This image was taken from the Getty Research Institute's Open Content Program, which states the following regarding their assessment that no known copyright restrictions exist: Open content images are digital surrogates of works of art that are in the Getty's collections and in the public domain, for which we hold all rights, or for which we are not aware of any rights restrictions. While the Getty Research Institute cannot make an absolute statement on the copyright status of a given image, "Open content images can be used for any purpose without first seeking permission from the Getty." More information can be found at link known copyright restrictionsNo restrictionshttp://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.htmlfalse

description: Standing opposite a newly built pavilion of the Louvre, Gustave Le Gray made this photograph when the sun's position allowed him to best capture the details of the heavily ornamented facade, from the fluted columns on the ground level to the figurative group on the nearest gable. Paving stones lead the viewer's eye directly to the corner of the pavilion, where the sunlit facade is further highlighted beside an area blanketed in shadow.
Though the extensive art collections of the Louvre had first been opened to the public in 1793, during the french revolution, it was not until 1848 that the museum became the property of the state. Le Gray's image shows the exuberance of the architecture undertaken shortly thereafter, during the reign of Napoléon III, when large sections of the building housed government offices.

title: Louis Emile Durandelle, The Eiffel Tower - State of the Construction, 1888

artist: Louis-Emile Durandelle

date: 23 November 1888

medium: Albumen print

dimensions: Image: 43.2 x 34.6 cm (17 x 13 5/8 in.), Mount: 65 x 50 cm (25 9/16 x 19 11/16 in.), Mat: 71.1 x 55.9 cm (28 x 22 in.)

current location: Institution:Getty Museum

source: Getty Museum online|61770

credit: The Getty Center, Object 61770 This image was taken from the Getty Research Institute's Open Content Program, which states the following regarding their assessment that no known copyright restrictions exist: Open content images are digital surrogates of works of art that are in the Getty's collections and in the public domain, for which we hold all rights, or for which we are not aware of any rights restrictions. While the Getty Research Institute cannot make an absolute statement on the copyright status of a given image, "Open content images can be used for any purpose without first seeking permission from the Getty." More information can be found at link known copyright restrictionsNo restrictionshttp://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.htmlfalse

description: The Centennial Exposition of 1889 was organized by the french government to commemorate the french revolution. Bridge engineer Gustave Eiffel's 984-foot (300-meter) tower of open-lattice wrought iron was selected in a competition to erect a memorial at the exposition. Twice as high as the dome of St. Peter's in Rome or the Great Pyramid of Giza, nothing like it had ever been built before. This view was made about four months short of the tower's completion. Louis-Émile Durandelle photographed the tower from a low vantage point to emphasize its monumentality. The massive building barely visible in the far distance is dwarfed under the tower's arches.
Incidentally, the tower's innovative glass-cage elevators, engineered to ascend on a curve, were designed by the Otis Elevator Company of New York, the same company that designed the Getty Center's diagonally ascending tram.

title: L'execution de Maximilien de Robespierre a la guillotine

artist:

date: circa 1799

medium: technique engraving

dimensions: size cm 40.5 29

current location: Institution:Bibliothèque nationale de France

source: gallica|btv1b53009891h/f1

credit: This image comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID btv1b53009891h/f1