# Portrait of Henri Rochefort [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MANET, Edouard]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 82 x 67 cm ## Commentary Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay \(1830-1913\) was a French writer and politician. In 1870 he became a member of the Government of National Defence, and he openly expressed sympathy with the Communards. In 1871 he was arrested and condemned under military law to imprisonment for life, then transported to New Caledonia. In 1874, he escaped on board an American vessel to San Francisco. ## 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]()