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A model of Republican Instruction

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In the classroom, the work of the little ones. © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - J.-G. Berizzi Publication date: February 2009 Historical background The beginnings of the school of the Third Republic The painting In the classroom, the work of the little ones was made by Jean Geoffroy in 1889. The school, its teachers and its pupils gradually becoming familiar to the greatest number, the end of the 1880s was marked in fact by a growing interest in the question of childhood: emergence of childcare; constitution of children's medicine; debates around instruction and education; development of the treatment of this theme in the different arts.

The world in miniature

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Type of FuégiensPETIT Pierre Lanith (1831 - 1909) Groupe des OmahaBONAPARTE Roland (1858 - 1924) Two wrestlers (1910) Close Title: Type of FuégiensAuthor: PETIT Pierre Lanith (1831 - 1909) Creation date: 1881 -Date represented: September 1881Technique and other information: Original caption: & 34; Tierra del Fuego or Magellanic Archipelago.

Mass death

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CloseTitle: Cimetière du ravin de l & 39; index, Main de Massiges.Author: ANONYMOUS (-) Creation date: 1917Date represented: 1917Dimensions: Height 8.2 - Width 11.1 Techniques and other indications: Gelatin-bromide proof Money on paper Place of Conservation: Musée de l'Armée (Paris) website Contact copyright: © Paris - Musée de l & 39; Armée, Dist.

The myth of the oil tanker

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The Helpers of the Commune, the Oilers and the Lost Children.LIX Frédéric Théodore (1830 - 1897) Arrest of the arsonists.VERNIER Charles (1831 - 1887) Close Title: The Helpers of the Commune, the oil companies and the lost children.Author: LIX Frédéric Théodore (1830 - 1897) Date of creation: 1871 Date represented: 1871 Dimensions: Height 0 - Width 0 Techniques and other indications: photomechanical lithography on paper Place of Conservation: Museum of Art and History of Saint-Denis Contact copyright: © Saint -Denis, museum of art and history - Cliché I.

French militia

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CloseTitle: Arrest after a raid carried out by militiamen of the Vichy regime Creation date: 1943 -Date represented: 1943 Place of Conservation: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin) website Contact copyright: © BPK, Berlin, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / BPK image Image reference: 16-537366 Arrest after a raid carried out by militiamen of the Vichy regime © BPK, Berlin, Dist.

Mucha, champion of the new advertising poster

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CloseTitle: JOB.Author: MUCHA Alfons (1860 - 1939) Date of creation: 1898Date represented: Dimensions: Height 150 - Width 101Technics and other indications: Color lithographLocation of Conservation: Museum of advertising websiteContact copyright: © Museum of Advertising , Paris - All rights reserved Image reference: JOB12443,1 © Musée de la Publicité, Paris - All rights reserved Date of publication: May 2006 Historical background 1850, the poster is displayed If the poster made its appearance in the 15th century, little after the invention of the printing press, it was mainly used by the authorities as an information medium.

A monument for all the dead

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CloseTitle: War Memorial Author: BARTHOLOME Albert (1848 - 1928) Creation date: 1899 Date represented: Dimensions: Height 700 - Width 1400 Place of Conservation: Père Lachaise Cemetery Contact copyright: © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - Bulloz Reference de l & 39; image: 00-030651 © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - Bulloz Date of publication: April 2007 Historical context In the heart of Père-Lachaise It is within the framework of the law of 23 Prairial year XII that the cemetery of eastern Paris was created, official name of Père-Lachaise.

Napoleon III

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© Photo RMN-Grand PalaisPublication date: March 2016Historical contextFranz-Xaver Winterhalter painted this portrait of Napoleon III in 1857. It is the symbol of a rediscovered French grandeur. He is therefore a serene sovereign, at the height of his power , which Winterhalter portrayed there.Analysis of the imagesThe Emperor is represented in formal attire.

Napoleon and the arts

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Denon Salon Ceiling - Overview.MULLER Charles-Louis (1815 - 1892) Denon Salon Ceiling - detail.MULLER Charles-Louis (1815 - 1892) Close Title: Denon Salon Ceiling - Overview.Author : MULLER Charles-Louis (1815 - 1892) Date of creation: 1864 Date represented: Dimensions: Height 0 - Width 0 Techniques and other indications: oil painting Place of conservation: Louvre museum (Paris) website Contact copyright: © Photo RMN -Large Palaissite webImage reference: 77DN2802 Denon lounge ceiling - Overview.

The Indian museum of George Catlin: an ark of Noah with an ethnographic vocation

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Home ›Studies› The Indian museum of George Catlin: an ethnographic ark of Noah Indian ball game.CATLIN George (1794 - 1872) Indians of the Sauk tribe.CATLIN George (1794 - 1872) © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - G . BlotIndians of the Sauk tribe. © BPK, Berlin, Dist RMN-Grand Palais - Gisela Oestreich Publication date: February 2009 Historical background Catlin and his work In 1828, George Catlin, a self-taught painter who embarked on a career as a portrait painter for the American bourgeoisie , conceives the project to realize a pictorial work entirely dedicated to the Amerindians, of which he foresees the end.

Napoleon III receives the Siamese ambassadors

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CloseTitle: Reception of the Siamese ambassadors by Emperor Napoleon III at the Palace of Fontainebleau.Author: GEROME Jean-Léon (1824 - 1904) Creation date: 1864Date represented: June 27, 1861Dimensions: Height 128 - Width 260Technics and other indications: Oil on canvas Place of Conservation: Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau website Contact copyright: © Photo RMN-Grand Palaissite web Image reference: 89EE102 / MV 5004 Reception of the Siamese ambassadors by Emperor Napoleon III at the Palace of Fontainebleau.

The pictorialist movement and the beauty of work

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Close Title: Dockers in a Breton port Author: PUYO Constant (1857 - 1933) Date represented: Dimensions: Height 6 - Width 10.8 Technique and other indications: Albumen print Place of conservation: Musée d & 39; Orsay website Contact copyright : © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - All rights reserved Image reference: 90-001541-01 / Pho1988-1-38 Dockers on a Breton port.

The birth of the tenor myth

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CloseTitle: Panthéon Charivarique: Gilbert-Louis Duprez.Author: BENJAMIN (-) Creation date: 1838Date represented: 1838Dimensions: Height 0 - Width 0Technics and other indications: Page of the Journal Charivari Place of conservation: National Library of France (Paris) websiteContact copyright: © Cliché Bibliothèque Nationale de FranceImage reference: Prints Music IFN-07720696 img 17Panthéon Charivarique: Gilbert-Louis Duprez.

The occupation of the Ruhr

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A French soldier on a requisitioned coal train. Ruhr, 1923.ANONYMEL & 39; occupation of the Ruhr: "Name of a dog, the beast has quills." SCHILLING Erich (1885 - 1945) Close Title: A French soldier on a requisitioned coal train. Ruhr, 1923.Author: ANONYMOUS (-) Creation date: 1923Date represented: 1923Dimensions: Height 0 - Width 0Location: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin) websiteContact copyright: © BPK, Berlin, Dist RMN-Grand Palais © Rights reserved site web Image reference: 08-529390 A French soldier on a requisitioned coal train.

A new urban experience

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The Metro, Villiers stationVUILLARD Édouard (1868 - 1940) In the metro by simple hygieneBRIDGE Joe (1886 - 1967) Close Title: The Metro, Villiers station Author: VUILLARD Édouard (1868 - 1940) Creation date: 1916 Dimensions: Height 88 cm - Width 219 cm Techniques and other indications: mounted glue painting Place of Conservation: Musée d & 39; Orsay website Contact copyright: RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d & 39; Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski Link to image Image reference: 10 -521132The Metro, Villiers station © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d & 39; Orsay) / Hervé LewandowskiCloseTitle: In the metro by simple hygieneAuthor: BRIDGE Joe (1886 - 1967) Creation date: Around 1930Dimensions: Height 119 cm - Width 78 cm Techniques and other indications: chromolithography Place of conservation: MuCEM website Contact copyright: All rights reserved - Photo MuCEM, Dist.

"Shovel blacks", slaves in Guyana

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Negroes digging a canal.ANONYMOUS Plan of the Savane Jappé housing in the Montsinery district. Guyana.Map of the island of Cayenne and neighboring rivers by d & 39; Anville.Letter from Victor Hugues, government commissioner in Guyana, to the Minister of the Navy and Colonies.CloseTitle: Negroes digging a canal.

Charles Garnier's Opera

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Staircase of the Opera in Paris.NAVLET Victor (1819 - 1886) Napoleon III and the Empress visit the works of the Opera.GILIS Ed.CloseTitle: Escalier de l & 39; Opéra in Paris.Author: NAVLET Victor (1819 - 1886) Date of creation: 1880 Date represented: Dimensions: Height 131 - Width 196 Technique and other indications: oil painting on canvas Place of Conservation: Musée d & 39; Orsay website Contact copyright: © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - G.

A voodoo banner

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CloseTitle: Oriflamme du voodou.Date represented: Dimensions: Height 90 - Width 60Technique and other indications: Sequins and pearls of scales and plastic sewn on fabrics.Location of Conservation: Private collectionContact copyright: © Private collection - All rights reserved © Private collection - All rights reserved Publication date: October 2007 Historical background Deported from the African coast, mixed without respect for ethnic groups at the bottom of the hold in slave ships, sold and dispersed upon arrival in the Americas, African slaves reconstitute, despite everything, community rites to which they indulge more or less clandestinely.

Panorama of Palaces

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CloseTitle: Universal Exhibition of 1878. The panorama of the palaces.Author: FOUGÈRE (-) Creation date: 1878Date represented: 1878Dimensions: Height 0 - Width 0Technics and other indications: ChromolithographyLocation of Conservation: Musée Carnavalet (Paris) websiteContact copyright: © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - Bulloz Image reference: 01-024370 World's Fair of 1878.

The worker at the beginning of the twentieth<sup>e</sup> century

The worker at the beginning of the twentieth^e century

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Le lever de l & 39; Ouvrière.ROBERT-FLEURY Tony (1838 - 1911) Worker, hands on hips.STEINLEN Théophile Alexandre (1859 - 1923) © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - F. VizzavonaWorker, hands on hips. © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - T. Le MagePublication date: March 2016Historical contextPainting the worker at the start of the 20th century: from activism to academism?