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Charles Alexander Smith: L'Assemblée des six-comtés  wikidata:Q6455608 reasonator:Q6455608
Artist
Charles Alexander Smith  (1864–1915)  wikidata:Q5075054
 
Alternative names
Charles Alexander, Alexander Charles Smith, Chas. Alexander, Charles Alexander Smith
Description Canadian painter
Date of birth/death 1864 Edit this at Wikidata 1915 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Galt London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5075054
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
L'Assemblée des six comtés à Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, en 1837
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre history painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
L'Assemblée des six-comtés, a painting depicting the Assembly of the Six Counties, held in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada, on October 23 and October 24, 1837.
Depicted people Louis-Joseph Papineau Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1891
date QS:P571,+1891-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 300 cm (118.1 in); width: 690 cm (22.6 ft)
dimensions QS:P2048,300U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,690U174728
institution QS:P195,Q2338135
Current location
Art ancien (des origines à 1900)
Accession number
1937.54
Place of creation Vallée de Chevreuse
Object history

1890: commissioned by Government of Quebec, Parliament Building (Quebec), Quebec City

1891: transferred to Quebec City

Commissioned by the Government of Quebec, but refused after completion

1895: purchased by Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal

circa 1930
date QS:P,+1930-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
: acquired by Government of Quebec, Parliament Building (Quebec), Quebec City (presumably)
1937: transferred to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, from Parliament Building (Quebec), Quebec City
Exhibition history L'Assemblée des six comtés (1890), Musée du Québec, Quebec City, 23 February 1995–16 October 1995, no catalogue.
Inscriptions

Text left:

NOTRE CANADA / AVANT TOUT / Les 92 / Resolutions

Text left:

A BAS LES TYRANS! / MORT AUX TRAITRES! / LIBERTY / OR DEATH!

Text left:

VIVE LA FRANCE
References

Maurice Champagne (April 1995) "L'Assemblée des six comtés", Bulletin de la bibliothèque de l'Assemblée nationale, volume 24, number 1, p. 3-5.

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, as L'Assemblée des six comtés à Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, en 1837, 1891.
Source/Photographer Photographed by Wilfredor

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