Caption:
"Notre-Dame de Paris, 1904" oil painting by Adolphe Leon Willette (1857-1926). Depicted is an allegory of the City of Paris with the exterior of the Notre Dame cathedral, the July Column memorializing the Revolution of 1830, the Bastille fortress/prison that was stormed by a crowd in 1789 and the red flag of the Revolutionaries draping a street barricade erected during the Revolution of 1848. Adolphe Leon Willette was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, as well as an architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret. (Image has been cropped and cleaned.)