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La Barricade – Vintage Wall Art

La Barricade — antique lithograph
La Barricade. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with La Barricade, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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La Barricade

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Titled simply *La Barricade*, this 1871 lithograph takes its subject from the street barricades that defined the Paris Commune, the radical government that held the city from March to May of that year. Barricades of paving stones, furniture and carts were thrown up across Paris during the uprising, and they became potent symbols for both its defenders and its opponents. The Commune ended in the "Bloody Week" of late May 1871, when government troops retook the city and many barricades were overrun. Prints like this one circulated widely at the time, so they offer a view of how the events were visualized as they unfolded.

Medium1 print : lithograph.
Notes1871
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,131 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120682

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