The Chapel of La Madeleine in Malestroit, Alexandre Bloch, 1886

A section from a republican regiment led by general canclaux massacred a group of chouans sheltering in a chapel. The chouans fought to the death. The picture shows the interior of the chapel after the departure of the republican troops (whose storming of the building is symbolized by the hat with the tricolor cockade left abandoned on the ground). The dead bodies and broken church furnishings testify to the violence of the action. Object Type: painting. Date: 1886. Dimensions: height: 206 cm (81.1 in); width: 249 cm (98 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper. Chapelle de La Madeleine à Malestroit