Given the weather in most of the country this January, Carolus-Duran’s plunge into snowy memories during his summertime walk with Edward in the Tuileries Garden makes for a timely post. The painter really did assist his friend, Alexandre Falguière, build a snow sculpture at Bastion 84 on the southern wall of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, and so I could have him recount the incident to Edward when they discussed their respective wars.
For Bracquemond’s etching of Bastion 84, click here.
For an amusing film clip of a snowball fight in 1896, click here.
For Bracquemond’s etching of Bastion 84, click here.
For an amusing film clip of a snowball fight in 1896, click here.