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Photo, Print, Drawing The Military Procession. Le Défilé

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Title

  • The Military Procession.

Other Title

  • Le Défilé

Summary

  • This is the first of a pair of unsigned watercolors by the German artist Georg Emanuel Opitz (1775-1841). It shows a procession of cossack soldiers marching through Paris during the occupation of the city in 1814. Opitz, who focused on portraiture and caricature, traveled to Paris in 1813 and witnessed the arrival of Russian and Prussian forces in the city following the Battle of Paris. Until this battle, no foreign army had entered Paris in 400 years. The French defeat led to the abdication of the Emperor Napoleon. The watercolor is from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at the Brown University Library, the foremost American collection devoted to the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering, and one of the world's largest collections devoted to the study of military and naval uniforms.

Names

  • Opitz, Georg Emanuel, 1775-1841 Artist.

Created / Published

  • Paris : [publisher not identified], 1815.

Headings

  • -  France--Île-de-France--Paris
  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  1799 to 1815
  • -  Armies
  • -  Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
  • -  Parades and processions
  • -  Soldiers

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 watercolor; 37.1 x 47 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Brown University Library.
  • -  Content in French.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669866

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Opitz, Georg Emanuel, Artist. The Military Procession. Île-De-France Russian Federation Paris France, 1815. [Paris: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021669866/.

APA citation style:

Opitz, G. E. (1815) The Military Procession. Île-De-France Russian Federation Paris France, 1815. [Paris: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021669866/.

MLA citation style:

Opitz, Georg Emanuel, Artist. The Military Procession. [Paris: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021669866/>.