Painting, Louvre-Lens Museum, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France

Rochefort's Escape, oil painting on canvas, c. 1881, by Edouard Manet, 1832-83, in the Louvre-Lens, an art museum in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France. The painting depicts the escape in 1874 of journalist Henri Rochefort, 1831-1913, by boat, from the penal colony of New Caledonia, where he had been sent after the fall of the Paris Commune. The museum holds works on loan from the Musee du Louvre in Paris. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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