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TITLE:
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L'Exécution de Maximilien (Guerin 73; Harris 54), 1868
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WORK DATE:
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1967-1968
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CATEGORY:
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Prints
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MATERIALS:
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Lithograph
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EDITION/SET OF:
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State III/III. Edition of 50 impressions
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SIZE:
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h: 13.1 x w: 17 in / h: 33.3 x w: 43.2 cm
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REGION:
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French
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STYLE:
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Impressionism (ca. 1860s-1880s)
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PRICE*:
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DESCRIPTION:
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Abandoned by the French government that crowned him and sent him to Mexico, the Emperor Maximilian was executed by a firing squad of Benito Juárez's army at Querétaro, north of Mexico City, on June 19, 1867. News of the execution reached Paris on July 1, just as Napoleon III was inaugurating that year's Universal Exposition. Édouard Manet set to work almost immediately, and by early 1869 he had completed a series of four paintings and one lithograph of the subject
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