Keywords: Wappers belgian revolution.jpg Artwork Creator Gustave Wappers Episode des journées de Septembre 1830 Men and women form a mound around a post in the streets of a city on the right of this painting A tattered tricolour flag of black yellow and red is at the top and beside this flag a man stands with a paper in his hand A man on his horse on the left of the painting is among the crowd at the base of the mound and a dog campers just in front of his steed The crowd bears swords pikes and guns affixed with bayonets One of the women at the base of the mound cradles a baby while two women and an old man grieve over a dead youth in their arms The blue sky is overcast with grey smoke 1834 Oil on canvas cm 660 444 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Brussels accession number object history This painting was commissioned by the new government of Belgium after the 1830 revolution that separated the country from the Netherlands credit line The painting has been reproduced and published in cite book Muther Richard 1894 The History of Modern Painting Henry and Company London United Kingdom p 445 http //books google com/books id TtM1AAAAMAAJ Historical School of Painting in Belgium http //books google com/books id TtM1AAAAMAAJ pg PA445 Volume 1 2011-02-14 cite book Muther Richard De Mot Jean translator 1904 La Peinture belge au XIXe siècle Misch Thron Brussels Belgium opposite p 6 http //books google com/books id OyItAAAAYAAJ French Le Peinture Belge http //books google com/books id OyItAAAAYAAJ pg PA6-IA1 2011-02-14 cite book Lemonnier Camille 1906 L'école belge de peinture 1830 1905 Librairie Nationale D'Art et D'Histoire and G Van Oest Company Brussels Belgium opposite p 4 http //books google com/books id 0EMYAAAAYAAJ French Chapitre Premiere http //books google com/books id 0EMYAAAAYAAJ pg PA3 2011-02-14 This image is a photograph taken by the uploader; the subject is in the public domain by virtue of pre-1923 publication for US and expiry of 70-year pma copyright for the source country Belgium cite book Norman Geraldine 1977 Nineteenth-Century Painters and Painting a Dictionary University of California Press California United States p 215 0-520-03328-0 http //books google com/books id G_AIX2wVuj0C W http //books google com/books id G_AIX2wVuj0C pg PA215 Volume 1977 Part 2 2011-02-14 cite web Episodes from September Days 1830 on the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville in Brussels http //www fine-arts-museum be/site/asp/Oeuvre_details asp ID 50 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 2011-02-14 PD-old-100-1923 <gallery>File Wappers - Episodes from September Days 1830 on the Place de l ™Hôtel de Ville in Brussels JPG Photograph of large resolution File Gustaf Wappers003 jpg Blur photograph </gallery> Episode of the September Days 1830 on the Grand Place of Brussels by Gustave Wappers |