RM2HGPWRK–The Victory Banquet 1770 Jacques Philippe Le Bas French In 1760, with the successful conclusion of the Central Asian campaign, the emperor celebrated with a grand victory banquet at the Pavilion of Purple Radiance (Ziguangge), a hall located just west of the Forbidden City. He is shown accompanied by officials and imperial bodyguards at right, while vanquished Central Asian tribesmen kneel at left. Bolts of silk and other gifts have been set out on tables to either side of the imperial yurt as tangible rewards for the acceptance of Chinese rule, while servants prepare a meal at the rear of the
RM2HHWPJ4–[Grand Army Review, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington] May 23 or 24, 1865 Alexander Gardner American, Scottish On May 23 and 24, 1865, two weeks after the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, was taken prisoner in Georgia, more than 150,000 jubilant soldiers marched up Pennsylvania Avenue as part of the Grand Army Review. To the sounds of bands playing 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home,' the armies of the Potomac, Tennessee, and Georgia were feted in a victory parade to celebrate the end of the war. Traveling from the newly completed Capitol (seen in the distance) to the main reviewing
RM2HHWPHR–[Grand Army Review, Washington] May 23 or 24, 1865 Alexander Gardner American, Scottish On May 23 and 24, 1865, two weeks after the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, was taken prisoner in Georgia, more than 150,000 jubilant soldiers marched up Pennsylvania Avenue as part of the Grand Army Review. To the sounds of bands playing 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home,' the armies of the Potomac, Tennessee, and Georgia were feted in a victory parade to celebrate the end of the war. Traveling from the newly completed Capitol (seen in the distance) to the main reviewing stand in front of the
RM2HHWPH8–[Grand Army Review, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington] May 23 or 24, 1865 Alexander Gardner American, Scottish On May 23 and 24, 1865, two weeks after the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, was taken prisoner in Georgia, more than 150,000 jubilant soldiers marched up Pennsylvania Avenue as part of the Grand Army Review. To the sounds of bands playing 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home,' the armies of the Potomac, Tennessee, and Georgia were feted in a victory parade to celebrate the end of the war. Traveling from the newly completed Capitol (seen in the distance) to the main reviewing
RM2HHR412–Allegorical Victory of the Grand Condé 1786 Robert Guillaume Dardel French The year 1786 was the centenary of the death of Louis II de Bourbon, prince de Condé, the illustrious warrior of the Louis XIV period known to all as the Grand Condé. His descendant, the eighth prince de Condé, commissioned decorations to honor his forebear. The eighth prince allotted this subject – winged Victory awarding the palm to a wounded hero in agony – to his favorite sculptor, the talented Robert-Guillaume Dardel. Modeled for a statuary group that was evidently never realized, the terracotta's Baroque flourishe
RM2HHAWRH–Victory 1892–1903; this cast, 1914 or after (by 1916) Augustus Saint-Gaudens American Adapted from the full-size figure of Victory on Saint-Gaudens’s equestrian monument to the Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman (1892–1903; Grand Army Plaza, Manhattan), this winged allegorical figure is depicted as a triumphant guiding force. Her classicizing gown is emblazoned with an eagle, and she wears a crown of laurel and holds a palm frond—both traditional emblems of victory. The windblown pose recalls that of the Hellenistic marble 'Nike of Samothrace' (Musée du Louvre, Paris). The principal mo
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