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12 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Bouboulina, the Heroine naval captain during Greece’s War of Independence, with Footnotes #212

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Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
La Grèce sur les ruines de Missolonghi/ Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, c. 1826
Oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
height: 208 cm (81.8 in); width: 147 cm (57.8 in)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

The defeat of the Greek insurgents at Missolonghi which fell on April 29, 1826 at the hands of the Turks. The news of the fall of the most powerful fortress of Greece mobilized the Philhellenes of Western Europe and revived sympathy for the Greeks…

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