# L'exécution de Varlin

By [Maximilien Luce](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/maximilien-luce.md>), 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.

## Details

- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 89 × 116 cm
- Collection: [Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/gallery-d417f5df18642276.md>)

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- Categories: Painting
- Styles: [Realism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/realism.md>), [Modernism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/modernism.md>)

## Image

![Eugène Varlin sits exhausted before a line of soldiers preparing to execute him.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/source-d417f5df18642276-d55142a5e7e4c142/full.jpg?v=1657f77b908dd0abcf5de84bf8d1e6610253e14b7b0eba38fa730cc7d9d8096d>)

## Sources & credits

- Pierre Poschadel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu, Mantes-la-Jolie, inv. 98.04.36
- [Image source](<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMaximilien_LUCE%2C_L%27ex%C3%A9cution_de_Varlin%2C_entre_1910_et_1917%2C_mus%C3%A9e_de_l%27h%C3%B4tel-Dieu%2C_inv._98.04.36.JPG>)
- Artwork metadata drawn from Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu and French Ministry of Culture collection records; image provenance is recorded per artwork.

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