Grand'Garde (Souvenir of the Siege of Paris)
James Tissot French
Not on view
Tissot enlisted in the National Guard to defend the city of Paris during the Prussian siege in 1870. This is one of a series of six etchings he produced later in the decade, all subtitled "Souvenir du Siege de Paris" and based on drawings he made during the conflict. Thomas Gibson Bowles, the editor of "Vanity Fair," based a wood engraved illustration for his book, "The Defense of Paris: Narrated As It Was Seen" (1871) on the same now-lost drawing.
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