Scenes of July 1830 (French: Scène de Juillet 1830) is an 1830 oil painting by the French artist Léon Cogniet.[1] It symbolically depicts the July Revolution of 1830 which led to the downfall of Charles X and the House of Bourbon. Cogniet uses three flags to demonstrate the overthrow the of the government. On the left is the Royalist banner featuring fleur-de-lis on a white background. On the second the royalist emblem of the flag has been shot away leaving the blue sky gaping behind it. In the third the right portion of the flag is soaked in the blood of the martyrs of the revolution, giving it the appearance of the French tricolour.[2] It is also known by the alternative title Les Drapeaux.[3]
| Scenes of July 1830 | |
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| Artist | Léon Cogniet |
| Year | 1830 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 19 cm × 24 cm (7.5 in × 9.4 in) |
| Location | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans |
The tricolour was strongly associated with the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era and had been suppressed during the Restoration period. The new July Monarchy of Louis Philippe I adopted the tricolour as the national flag once more.[4]
Although a number of paintings of the July Revolution were displayed at the Salon of 1831 in Paris, this was not amongst them.[5] Today the painting is in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Orléans.[6]
References
edit- ^ Léon Cogniet, 1794-1880: Musée des beaux-arts d'Oréans, 14 juin-10 septembre 1990. Le Musée, 1990. p.53-54
- ^ Pastoureau p.164
- ^ Le temps des passions: collections romantiques des musées d'Orléans. Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans, 1997. p.174
- ^ Fortescue p.28
- ^ Brown p.43
- ^ https://histoire-image.org/etudes/scene-juillet-1830-dit-drapeaux
Bibliography
edit- Brown, Marilyn R. The Gamin de Paris in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture: Delacroix, Hugo, and the French Social Imaginary. Taylor & Francis, 2017.
- Fortescue, William. France and 1848: The End of Monarchy. Psychology Press, 2005.
- Pastoureau, Michel. Red: The History of a Color. Princeton University Press, 2017.
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