page_title: The Great Day of Girona
section_title: Other Versions
hierarchical_section_title: The Great Day of Girona / Other Versions
caption_attribution_description: Español: La obra representa el sitio de Gerona de 1809, ocurrido durante la Guerra de la Independencia Española.
context_page_description: The Great Day of Girona, originally El gran dia de Girona, is a large oil painting by Ramon Martí Alsina depicting an important victory of Girona's defenders over the French during the Third Siege of Girona in 1809. Completed in 1864, it is the largest easel painting in the history of Catalan art. The creation process took more than 10 years and led the artist nearly to financially ruin on several occasions. The painting became part of the collection of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, and it is on permanent display in the Girona in an auditorium of the Catalan Government building.
  Due to the large size of the work, scholars suggest that it may have been an effort to compete with Marià Fortuny's Battle of Tetuan, a work commissioned by the council of Barcelona regarding the African War.
  In 1938 during the Spanish Civil War, the painting was damaged during a bombardment while on exhibit at the Palau de les Belles Arts. To protect it from further damage, the work was rolled up and stored in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Seventy years after its deposit, the painting was restored between 2009 and 2010.
context_section_description: The subject matter of the siege of Girona has been treated by several artists on several occasions and various versions of the theme exist;
  In the Museum of Art Girona The Siege of Girona 1809, or Study for the Great Day of Girona (1860) exists, which is a reduced version of the painting (47 x 84.5 cm), painted and signed by Martí Alsina.
  César Álvarez Dumont (Portugal 1866 – Malaga 1945), the artist painted his own version of the siege in 1890. The piece has the same title as Martí Alsina’s work, The Great Day of Girona, and is currently in the collection of the Prado, Madrid.
  Laureà Barrau painted the Surrender of Girona, 1809 (Rome, 1884), which is currently part of a private collection in Girona.
caption: César Álvarez Dumont - The Great Day of Girona
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