DOI issue:
Vol. 6, No. 2 (April, 1916)
DOI article:Bradley, William Aspenwall: Some French artists during the Siege and Commune
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.49980#0290
ished, and their distribution among the public museums
and libraries. These were all deposited in the Tuileries,
however, where they are said to have perished when
that palace was consumed by the flames.
About this same time there occurred a serious split in
the Communists’ ranks, and Courbet was among those
who signed a protest complaining that the Commune
had abandoned all direct responsibility and thrown to
the winds its original policy of political and social re-
form. The signatories threatened that they would no
longer attend the deliberations of the Commune, and
were accused of wishing to save their own skins in the
great crisis that was now felt to be at hand.
Courbet’s attitude in these latter days, as well as his
great fame as an artist, may, indeed, have had some
effect in ameliorating the judgment passed upon him
by the courtmartial at the end of the Commune. Though
a number of his fellow-prisoners were condemned to
transportation, deportation, or hard labor for life,
Courbet was sentenced to only six months’ imprison-
ment and the payment of a fine of 1500 francs. His
last years were spent in Switzerland, where he died in
1877. The monument, in whose demolition he had been
the leading spirit, was afterwards restored.
and libraries. These were all deposited in the Tuileries,
however, where they are said to have perished when
that palace was consumed by the flames.
About this same time there occurred a serious split in
the Communists’ ranks, and Courbet was among those
who signed a protest complaining that the Commune
had abandoned all direct responsibility and thrown to
the winds its original policy of political and social re-
form. The signatories threatened that they would no
longer attend the deliberations of the Commune, and
were accused of wishing to save their own skins in the
great crisis that was now felt to be at hand.
Courbet’s attitude in these latter days, as well as his
great fame as an artist, may, indeed, have had some
effect in ameliorating the judgment passed upon him
by the courtmartial at the end of the Commune. Though
a number of his fellow-prisoners were condemned to
transportation, deportation, or hard labor for life,
Courbet was sentenced to only six months’ imprison-
ment and the payment of a fine of 1500 francs. His
last years were spent in Switzerland, where he died in
1877. The monument, in whose demolition he had been
the leading spirit, was afterwards restored.