The Barricade (Remembrance of Civil War)

This picture was painted by the artist after his watercolour The Barricade (Mus�e d’Orsay, Paris). The title and certainly the meaning of this “replica” are different. The painting became Memory of Civil War when the artist exhibited it at the Salon of 1850-1851. The precision of the version in oil gave it the “indifference of a daguerreotype”, which substantiated the accusations of inhumanity raised by some radical critics when they saw this painting.