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A Centennial of Independence 1892

by Henri Rousseau

Henri Rousseau commemorated the one-hundredth anniversary of the proclamation of the first French Republic in 1792. Peasants dance the farandole, a popular southern French dance, around three liberty trees and two female figures representing the First and Third Republics. Rousseau copied the dancers from a French magazine illustration but added waving banners, the liberty ...

Size:: 111.8 x 158.1 cm (44 x 62 1/4 in.)
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Credit:: Courtesy of The Getty
More:: http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/816/henri-rousseau-a-centennial-of-independence-french-1892/

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Kathleen BonnerArt Lover (0)
6 years ago
A very happy birthday, dear Judy My caps are not working well--won't let me capitalize judy--but I take my cap off to you!! All best wishes, -=Kathleen

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