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[Emperor Maximilian's Firing Squad]

1867
Not on view
Legend maintains that Maximilan paid each of the seven executors shown here one ounce of gold not to shoot him in the head; he wanted, the story asserts, his mother to see his face one last time when he was in his coffin. The French painter Edouard Manet turned his eye to the events of June 19, 1867, in his large oil Execution of the Emperor Maximilian (1867), now in the collection of the Kunsthalle in Mannheim, Germany.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [Emperor Maximilian's Firing Squad]
  • Artist: François Aubert (French, 1829–1906)
  • Date: 1867
  • Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
  • Dimensions: Image: 11.4 x 14.2 cm (4 7/16 x 5 9/16 in.)
    Mount: 18.2 x 22.1 cm (7 3/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
  • Object Number: 2005.100.580.1
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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