Rouget de l'Isle Composing La Marseillaise in Strasbourg, 1792

Name: Rouget de l'Isle Composing La Marseillaise in Strasbourg, 1792 Composers J. Scherrer Postcard
SKU: 1090523
Price: 19.95 USD
Availability: InStock

Original Vintage Card

Price: $19.95

Stock #: 1090523

Type: Postcard

Artist: J. Scherrer

Publisher: ND Phot.

Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Publisher's Series #: 3177 Dt.

Additional Details:

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.

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