Adolphe Léon Willette, 1903 - Gavroche picking up balls to the barricade - fine art print

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In the year 1903 Adolphe Léon Willette made this artwork. The over 110 year-old original creation measures the size: Height: 125,2 cm, Width: 64,8 cm and was painted with the medium Oil, Canvas (material). The painting has the following inscription: Signature - Bottom left "A. Willette". Nowadays, the work of art belongs to the Maison de Victor Hugo - Hauteville House's collection, which is a house museum where the writer Victor Hugo lived for 16 years. We are happy to state that this masterpiece, which belongs to the public domain is being supplied, courtesy of Maison de Victor Hugo - Hauteville House.Creditline of the artwork: . What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with a side ratio of 9 : 16, which means that the length is 45% shorter than the width.

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Illustration of "Les Misérables", Part V "Jean Valjean", Book I "War within four walls", Chapter XV "Gavroche outside" corerspondant the following passage: "And with one bound he plunged into the street .We recall that the Fannicot company, retiring, had left behind a trail of cadavres.Une twenty lay dead here and there throughout the length of the street on the pavement. twenty cartridge-boxes for Gavroche, a provision cartridges for smoke barricade.La was in the street like a fog. Anyone who has seen a cloud fallen into a mountain gorge between two steep escarpments can imagine this smoke and constricted as thickened by two dark lines of tall houses . it rose slowly and renewed constantly, hence a gradual darkening even that paled full day This is hardly a across the street, though very short, the combatants perceived.. this obfuscation, probably desired and calculated by are leaders who should lead the assault of the barricade, was useful to Gavroche.Sous the folds of this veil of smoke, and thanks to its small size, he could advance far enough into the street without being seen. He robbed the first seven or eight cartridge-boxes without much danger.Il crawled flat belly, galloped on all fours, took his cart to the teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound a death to another, and emptied the pouch or the bandolier as a monkey opens a noix.De the barricade, which he was still close enough, we did not dare shout back, for fear of drawing attention to lui.Sur a corpse, who was a corporal, he found a pear poudre.- for the thirsty, he said, putting his poche.À strength to go forward, he reached the point where the fog of firing became transparent. "

The work is the only one of Paul Meurice in order not to be reproduced in Arsène Alexandre book "La Maison de Victor Hugo" published for the inauguration of the Museum. She n''est not mentioned by Gustave Simon in the guide published in 1904). It is however one of five shipments of Wilette the fifteenth exhibition 1905 Salon of the National Society of Fine stoppages where it is listed in the catalog without mention of belonging to the city of Paris or the Maison de Victor Hugo ".. WILLETTE (LEON-Adolphe), born at Chalons-sur-Marne - 37, rue Lacroix (XVII) .122 - The Death of Gavroche" We can therefore think that it has been delivered to the museum that after the show, since however much mentioned in the catalog Planes Eugene in 1907, as is also suggested in the letters of Paul Meurice Willette, evoking his problems Santee.

Gavroche (literary character)

Les Misérables (V.Hugo)

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