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  • WorldCoinsDmitryWorldCoinsDmitry Posts: 367 ✭✭✭

    Thanks for sharing this, from a former student of art history :)

    Highly enthusiastic about world coins, contemporary circulating counterfeits and unusual stuff <3

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 13, 2019 10:20AM

    There were several prominent numismatists with quite extensive collections of contemporary materials from the Maximillian/ French occupation era. Those gentlemen were in the right place at the right time (late 1950s and early 1960s) and their collections were significant. IIRC, Mr. Don Bailey was one of them.

    Manet painted more than one version of this subject:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Execution_of_Emperor_Maximilian

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,475 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Napoleon III sure hung Maximilian out to dry, but Napoleon got his Sedan in 1871.

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  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 13, 2019 1:18PM

    Nappy Trois got to retire in England and it could have been worse. He did not live long enough to see the death of his only son.

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 23,934 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Why was the painting cut up?

    All glory is fleeting.
  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 13, 2019 4:11PM

    Re-use canvas for another (smaller) painting. Frenchmen were once noted for great thriftiness.

    Not everything is vendible, and the subject matter was (once) controversial in France.

  • AbueloAbuelo Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭✭✭

    He painted several of these. However, apparently he did not know that Maximilian was not in the centre but General Miramón. Sad ending to a guy who had great ideas and found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 23,936 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’m familiar with the work and I’ve seen it in person a few times. I’ve never understood the appeal.

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 23, 2019 8:33AM

    @MrEureka said:
    I’m familiar with the work and I’ve seen it in person a few times. I’ve never understood the appeal.

    I have also seen one or two of the different versions still extant. I believe that I have seen the cut-up version too.

    Manet was both a businessman and a patriotic Frenchman, and he hoped for a market amongst the French (but he was actually forbidden to display the paintings in France). But Mexco was a military misadventure that most French wished to forget about. And then came Sedan...

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