Rochefort's Escape

Rochefort's Escape

Rochefort's Escape (French: L'évasion de Rochefort) is a painting by Edouard Manet painted in around 1881, currently in the Kunsthaus Zürich. It depicts the 1874 escape of Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay from captivity in New Caledonia to which he had been sentenced for his role in the Paris Commune. The genre of history painting traditionally dealt with historic and mythological topics, and Rochefort's Escape is considered highly significant for its depiction of an event still fresh in public memory. A second smaller version of the painting is in the Musée d'Orsay.^[1]

References

↑ "Musée d'Orsay: Edouard Manet Rochefort's Escape". Paris: Musée d'Orsay. Retrieved 21 August 2016.

Édouard Manet (list of works)
Paintings	The Absinthe Drinker (1859) The Spanish Singer (1860) Boy Carrying a Sword (1861) Music in the Tuileries (1862) The Old Musician (1862) The Luncheon on the Grass (1863) Olympia (1863) The Kearsarge at Boulogne (1864) The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama (1864) The Fifer (1866) The Races at Longchamp (1867) The Balcony (1868) Luncheon in the Studio (1868) Portrait of Emile Zola (1868) The Execution of Emperor Maximilian (1869) Effect of Snow on Petit-Montrouge (1870) Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets (1872) The Railway (1873) The Reading (1873) Nana (1877) The Plum (1877) Le Suicidé (1877–81) In the Conservatory (1879) The Café-Concert (1879) Self-Portrait with Palette (1879) Dead Eagle Owl (1881) The Rabbit (1881) Rochefort's Escape (1881) Spring (1881) A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882)
Models	Victorine Meurent Suzanne Manet

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