Ernest meissonier, the siege of paris, oil on canvas, 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: 1870. Dimensions: height: 53.5 cm (21 in); width: 70.5 cm (27.7 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Musée d'Orsay. Siege of Paris
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