| Reproduction of a painting by J. Scherrer, shown at the Salon de 1909. It depicts Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, a French army officer, in Strasbourg, composing the French national anthem "La Marseillaise" in 1792. He is shown playing a violin, looking upwards with an open mouth as if singing or in a moment of inspiration, with a ghostly image of an angelic figure and marching soldiers above him. Two lit candles are on a desk covered with papers. |
