L'exécution de Varlin
SaveMaximilien Luce, c. 1910–1917
Luce reconstructs the execution of the Communard labor leader Eugène Varlin, bringing his anarchist commitments into the register of history painting. Varlin sits exhausted before the soldiers who are about to fire.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 89 × 116 cm
- Collection
- Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu
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Pierre Poschadel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu, Mantes-la-Jolie, inv. 98.04.36
Sources & credits
Artwork metadata drawn from Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu and French Ministry of Culture collection records; image provenance is recorded per artwork.