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II.8.D.8
French factory at Montereau
The Turks capture Greek women and children ca. 1826-30
faience plate, diameter 21.8 cm
inscribed: LES TURCS EMMENANT LES FEMMES ET LES ENFANTS GRECS. (low centre) CANARIS / FABVIER // MIAULIS / BYRON // BOTZARIS / EYNARD (on periphery, in pairs, within wreaths)
Hellenic Parliament Art Collection, inv. n. 456
II.8.D.9
French factory at Montereau
The attack ambush, ca. 1826-30
faience plate, diameter 21.8 cm
inscribed: LA VEILLE D’UNE ATTAQUE. (low centre) CANARIS / FABVIER // MIAULIS / BYRON // BOTZARIS / EYNARD (on periphery, in pairs, within wreaths)
Hellenic Parliament Art Collection, inv. n. 457
II.8.D.10
French factory at Toulouse
Greeks after a failed military operation, ca. 1830 faience plate, diameter 21.7 cm
inscribed: Grecs après un revers. (low centre)
Hellenic Parliament Art Collection, inv. n. 461
Greek Women and Children reminds us of the suffer- ings of war; Greeks After a Failed Operation portrays the challenges and disappointments.
The latter plate, dating from circa 1830, was pro- duced by Joseph Fouque and Arnoux, a manufactur- er in Toulouse that flourished in the early nineteenth century; its philhellenic-themed production is related
to the city’s active philhellenic committee. This plate features a monochrome black and white image, framed by vivid floral decoration; it reproduces an engraving that in turn was made after a painting on the same subject by Henri Decaisne in 1826; it is also related to a painting by Ary Scheffer, which depicts Greek exiles longing for the lost motherland (1825).
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