Manet, Edouard - Execution of Maximilian 1868 painting postcard

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• Work of art title: The Execution of Maximilian (sketch) 1868-9
• Artist (if known): Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
• Media or other details:  Oil on Canvas
• Publisher / Gallery: National Gallery (London)
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): n/a
• Size: Modern
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Édouard Manet (French pronunciation: [edwa? man?]; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

His early masterworks, The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe) and Olympia, engendered great controversy and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism. Today, these are considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern art.

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Manet's response to modern life included works devoted to war, in subjects that may be seen as updated interpretations of the genre of "history painting".^[8] The first such work was the Battle of the Kearsarge and Alabama (1864), a sea skirmish from the American Civil War which took place off the French coast, and may have been witnessed by the artist.^[9]

Of interest next was the French intervention in Mexico; from 1867 to 1869 Manet painted three versions of the Execution of Emperor Maximilian, an event which raised concerns regarding French foreign and domestic policy.^[10] The several versions of the Execution are among Manet's largest paintings, which suggests that the theme was one which the painter regarded as most important. Its subject is the execution by Mexican firing squad of a Habsburg emperor, who had been installed by Napoleon III. Neither the paintings nor a lithograph of the subject were permitted to be shown in France.^[11] As an indictment of formalized slaughter the paintings look back to Goya,^[12] and anticipate Picasso's Guernica.