Incident of the Franco-Prussian War

Painting

Drexel Founding Collection

#367, Photographed by Mary Elizabeth Kulesa, 2021

Recto with frame

Name/Title

Incident of the Franco-Prussian War

Entry/Object ID

367

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Ellen Drexel Paul Mills

Notes

Date: 1957 Means of Accession: bequest

Made/Created

Artist

Lucien Marchet

Date made

circa 1870

Place

Country

France

Continent

Europe

Dimensions

Height

21 in

Width

24 in

Dimension Notes

Framed

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Exhibition Label

Label

The French initiated the conflict that came to be known as the Franco-Prussian War only to be brutally defeated by the Germans. Paintings like this one document the destruction caused by the war with a journalistic intensity.