Military Parade of the French Army on Place Vendôme, Paris
Also titled Defilé van het Franse leger op Place Vendôme in Parijs
Félix Nadar (Paris, 1820–1910)
1859-08-14
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 193 mm x width 214 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This early snapshot offers a quick impression of a military parade on Place Vendôme in Paris. The French army had just returned from a successful campaign against the Austrians in Italy. Press photography for newspapers and magazines did not yet exist in the 19th century. This photograph was published a week later in the magazine l’Illustration, but only after it had been copied and reworked as a wood engraving.
