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Gray lithograph of soldiers in tall hats gathered in a smoky night square before a colonnaded building with scaffolding.

Place du Panthéon, Night of December 22 to 23, 1830

A night scene in a city square, with soldiers in tall shakos and long coats gathered among drifting smoke. A colonnaded building with scaffolding rises at right, and a tall column stands at left in the dim light, all rendered in fine gray lithographic tones.

Artist
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
Date
1831
Medium
Lithograph on gray wove chine, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 1194 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1831).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Print and Drawing Club