Escape From the Enemy (Flucht vor dem Feind)

Editorial Comment for this plate:

PROTECTION FROM THE INVADER.

WE present in this issue of the journal an orthochromatic reproduction of J. V. Carsten’s famous painting, entitled “Flucht vor dem Feind.” It is a spirited picture, full of interest and very instructive to art students. Under the direction of the venerable Abbé old and young monks of a Dominican monastery are about to bury the treasures of Church and Convent to save them temporarily at least, from the cupidity of the advancing Prussian host.

The cliché from which our illustration is printed is one of J. B. Obernetter’s, of Munich, Germany, a Kupferdruck as he terms it, or as we should say, a photo-copper plate engraving. Herr Obernetter described his method of photo-engraving in the “American Annual of Photography” for 1888.  (p. 303)

Julius Victor Carstens: 1849-1908

Was a German painter. He worked in a variety of genres; including portraits, landscapes and still-lifes. He also painted a few church interiors. – Wikipedia