[Emperor Maximilian's Firing Squad]

1867

Not on view

Legend maintains that Maximilan paid each of the seven executors shown here one ounce of gold not to shoot him in the head; he wanted, the story asserts, his mother to see his face one last time when he was in his coffin. The French painter Edouard Manet turned his eye to the events of June 19, 1867, in his large oil Execution of the Emperor Maximilian (1867), now in the collection of the Kunsthalle in Mannheim, Germany.

Artwork Details

Title: [Emperor Maximilian's Firing Squad]
Artist: François Aubert (French, 1829–1906)
Date: 1867
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 11.4 x 14.2 cm (4 7/16 x 5 9/16 in.)
Mount: 18.2 x 22.1 cm (7 3/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Object Number: 2005.100.580.1
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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