Commander Marchand in Fashoda, 1898

Marchand is depicted full-length, life-size, with a slight three-quarter profile, in front of the Fort of Saint-Louis in Fashoda and the banks of the Nile. A French flag, raised on July 13, 1898, flutters in the wind over the fort. Marchand wears the officer's Legion of Honor cross. He is looking skyward.
The painting was created during Marchand's trip to Cairo in 1898 as he waited for Captain Baratier to return from Paris with the orders of the French government.