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Makeshift Memorial to Maximilian and Generals on the Hill of the Bells, Querétaro.

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Makeshift Memorial to Maximilian and Generals on the Hill of the Bells, Querétaro.
  • Tomb of Maximilian I of Mexico
Date1867
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 6 1/4 × 8 3/4 in. (15.9 × 22.2 cm)
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 8 3/4 in. (15.9 × 22.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2025.55
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Serge Kakou, Paris]; purchased by MFAH, 2025.
Published References Elderfield, John. Manet and the Execution of Maximilian. The Museum of Modern Art, 2006 (repr. p. 10). Sesma, Athena. Imaging and Imagining: Photographic Views of Mexico During the Second Mexican Empire (1864-67) and the Porfiriato (1884-1911). University of California, Riverside, 2024. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed lower left corner: "Aubert y Co. Mexico".

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