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L'Exécution de Maximilien   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
L'Exécution de Maximilien
Description
English: The execution of the emperor Maximilian and two companions, at left, before a firing squad. 1868
Lithograph on chine collé
Depicted people Representation of: Maximilian, Archduke of Austria and Emperor of Mexico
Date 1868
date QS:P571,+1868-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 337 millimetres
Width: 440 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1949,0411.3346
Notes

(Text from 'From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec', BM 1978, cat.15) Maximilian, Archduke of Austria, was made Emperor of Mexico in 1863 largely through Napoleon III's machinations. Left defenceless by the withdrawal of French troops, he was shot by the Liberal army on 19 June 1867. The news caused a sensation in Europe, and Manet made five versions of the subject, four oils plus this lithograph, which does not correspond exactly with any of the paintings. The behaviour of Napoleon III throughout the Mexican episode was disgraceful; thus the very choice of this subject could not be other than an attack on his regime. Manet drove the point home by his dispassionate treatment of the subject, and by clothing the execution squad in uniforms very similar to those worn by the French army.

Not surprisingly Manet was informed that if he insisted on presenting the picture for the Salon of 1869, it had 'toutes les chances pour ne point être admis'. To counter this he made the lithograph for wide public circulation. But when the printer Lemercier registered the print at the Dépot Légal, he was immediately ordered to suppress it, even though it did not carry any title. Manet then had a quarrel with the printer Lemercier who preferred to destroy the stone rather than return it to him. The lithograph was first published after Manet's death, in 1884.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1949-0411-3346
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