Garde de Paris, Pariser Garde
A colour lithographic plate from 1870 showing the uniforms of the Garde de Paris, a Paris municipal guard, printed as a German-language Bilderbogen sheet for general readers. The figures stand in a row in full dress: a drummer with a red-and-white drum, a standard bearer holding a blue flag under a gilt eagle, and soldiers in red-collared dark blue tunics, blue trousers and brass-fronted helmets with red plumes. A designer could take the flat, saturated palette and the formal, frontal military poses as a model for historical costume or uniform plates.
