Griekse troepen gaan aan land 1829 - 1835

Karl Loeillot-Hartwig made this print called "Griekse troepen gaan aan land" - "Greek troops landing" - at some point in the first half of the nineteenth century. It depicts soldiers disembarking from a ship to a port, flying a Greek flag. The print is a depiction of the Greek War of Independence, which lasted from 1821 to 1832. The war saw Greeks fight for freedom from Ottoman Empire rule, establishing a new Greek state. France, where Loeillot-Hartwig lived and worked, was one of several European countries that supported the Greek cause. Indeed, the French state promoted the Greek cause, seeing Greece as the cradle of Western civilization. This print, then, can be seen as a piece of propaganda, designed to elicit sympathy for the Greek cause. As an art historian, I would want to research the ways the French and other European states intervened in the Greek war, especially in terms of how they promoted it through visual imagery.