Painted cluster of hot-air balloons with French tricolour flags – Vintage Wall Art
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This historic image of Painted cluster of hot-air balloons with French tricolour flags brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Painted cluster of hot-air balloons with French tricolour flags
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Lead with the tricolour: the flags flying from this painted cluster of hot-air balloons tie the scene to France, where ballooning took root in the late eighteenth century. The Montgolfier brothers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne, launched the first public hot-air balloon flight near Annonay in 1783, and Paris quickly became a center of the craze. Balloons of this kind were soon a source of national pride, used for spectacle, scientific observation and, later, military reconnaissance. Look closely at how the painter grouped the envelopes, which suggests a festival or celebration rather than a single voyage.
| Original scan | 3,000 × 4,332 px · prints to 10 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02298u |
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