Marcel Broodthaers' "Département des Aigles" appropriates and recontextualizes the eagle motif across art history, presenting a painted vacuum formed plastic plate that references canonical painters including David, Ingres, Wiertz, and Courbet. The work exists in multiple versions, including this gilt background variant with black painted elements, exemplifying Broodthaers' conceptual practice of interrogating institutional frameworks and artistic legitimacy through quotation and repetition. Created during the 1960s and 1970s as part of his larger Département des Aigles project, the work demonstrates his characteristic use of industrial materials and ready made forms to critique the museum and the art historical canon.