Incident of the Franco-Prussian War

Painting

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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: 21x24 in

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.