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Object Type
print
Museum number
1913,0814.55
Title
Object:
L'Exécution de Maximilien
Object:
Maximilien d'Autriche, empereur du Mexique, le 19 juin, 1867
Description
The execution of the emperor Maximilian and two companions, at left, before a firing squad. 1868 Lithograph on chine collé
Producer name
Print made by:
Édouard Manet
Printed by:
Lemercier & Cie
School/style
French
Production date
1868
Production place
Printed in:
Paris (France)
Materials
paper
Technique
lithograph
Dimensions
Height:
332 millimetres
Width:
433 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
First published posthumously in 1884. See comment on the second impression, 1949,0411.3346.
Bibliographic references
Guérin 1969 / L'Oeuvre Gravé de Manet, avec un supplement nouvellement ajouté
(73)
(deuxième tirage)
Moreau-Nélaton 1906 / Manet: Graveur et lithographe
(79.II)
IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes
(63)
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
1983 Aug-Oct, London, NG, 'Manet' 1986 Apr-Jun, London, Courtauld Gallery, 'The Working Processes of Manet'
Subjects
execution
Associated names
Representation of:
Maximilian, Archduke of Austria and Emperor of Mexico
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Charles Ricketts
Donated by:
Charles Hazelwood Shannon
Acquisition date
1913
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1913,0814.55