# The Execution of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MANET, Edouard]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 252 x 305 cm ## Commentary The Execution of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, derived from current affaires, was a work of considerable ambition. In it, Manet makes play with his sources, borrowing his composition from <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/goya/7/714goya.html'\)" href="/html/g/goya/7/714goya.html">Goya's The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid,</a> but adding the faces of the people peeping over the wall from <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/goya/9/blac622.html'\)" href="/html/g/goya/9/blac622.html">Goya's Quinta del Sordo.</a> Manet' soldier, however, show no desire to hit their target; they aim parallel to the picture plane, putting their victims at no risk at all. ## Related artworks - [A Bar at the Folies-Bergère \(detail\)]() - [A Bar at the Folies-Bergère]() - [A Matador \(Matador Saluting\)]() - [Argenteuil]() - [At Longchamp Racecourse]() - [At Père Lathuille]() - [At the Café \(Bock Drinkers\)]() - [At the Café]() - [Baudelaire Bareheaded, Full Face]() - [Baudelaire with Hat, in Profile]() - [Baudelaire's Mistress Reclining]() - [Bench in the Garden at Versailles]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()