The siege of paris, oil on canvas by ernest meissonier, 1870-1884, paris, musée d'orsay. “memorial of the dead” and “heroic symphony of france”, the painting allegorically represents the city of paris as a woman surrounded by corpses and wounded overlooked by the prussian eagle perched on the arm of the specter of famine. Object Type: painting. Genre: allegory. Date: 1884. Dimensions: height: 54 cm (21.2 in); width: 71 cm (27.9 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Deutsch: Musée d'Orsay. Ernest Meissonier 001
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