Henri Félix Philippoteaux, 1848 - Lamartine pushing the red flag at City Hall, February 25, 1848 - fine art print

Artwork description by the museum (© Copyright - Musée Carnavalet Paris - www.carnavalet.paris.fr)

The scene is in front of the facade of City Hall. In the foreground, barricades elements rioters, guns, flags, etc. In the background, Lamartine, on the steps of City Hall, perched on a crate, giving a speech, surrounded by the crowd. A tricolor floats above the terrain Henri IV placed above the main door.

The day of the February 25 episode evokes the most famous of the political career of Lamartine tricolor flag of the defense. The people demanded the red flag, emblem of social struggles. Lamartine, very popular, was able to impose the modern idea of ​​the nation's emblem: he saved the tricolor and improvised his famous speech: "Let us preserve with respect, citizens, the tricolor which has toured the world with the Republic and Europe, our freedoms and our glories "(from" Three months in office "reconstituting his speech of February 25).

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The modern art artpiece was painted by the artist Henri Félix Philippoteaux in 1848. The original has the following size: Height: 27,5 cm, Width: 63 cm. Registration for the author - On the back cover glued on the canvas, incomplete part: "I'm slow, Sir / send you the sketch you / ask me, because I had counted / for you send, on / opportunity that just missed me / so I wear today to / Diligence Lyon, packaged / so fear no accident. / Please excuse the delay in progress / ment of a promise I had a light / forgotten, it is true, and receive, I will / beg my best regards / (signed) Philippoteaux / this Monday [...] / [....] and Messag [. ..] view / [...] Our Lady of [...] what v [...] / [...] be given to v [...] " was the artwork's original inscription. The artwork belongs to the collection of Musée Carnavalet Paris, which is a museum dedicated to the history of the city Paris. With courtesy of Musée Carnavalet Paris (license: public domain).The creditline of the artwork is the following: . Further, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format with an image ratio of 5 : 2, which means that the length is two and a half times longer than the width.

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