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| Keywords: Franck, Colonne Vendôme, 1871.jpg On May 16 1871 a group of Communards led by the painter Gustave Courbet pulled down the Vendôme Column In Franck's photograph its shattered remains litter the Place Vendôme Modeled on the ancient Column of Trajan in Rome the Vendôme Column was built by Napoleon I in the first decade of the nineteenth century as a glorification of the victorious French soldiers who defeated the Russian-Austrian alliance at the Battle of Austerlitz; the seventy-six battle-scene bas-reliefs that spiral up the shaft were cast from the bronze of 250 captured Russian cannons Louis-Philippe crowned the column with a statue of Napoleon in 1833 and Napoleon III replaced it thirty years later with another of Napoleon in Roman costume 1871 Albumen silver print from glass negative Size cm Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art object history exhibition history credit line Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1953 269671 accession number 53 704 8 48 868472222222 2 3302361111111 region FR_type landmark PD-100 Franck Destruction of the colonne Vendôme during the Paris Commune Paris Commune photographs Images of Paris from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Photographs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1871 photographs | ||||
