La Menagerie Imperiale
Print
1870-1871 (printed)
1870-1871 (printed)
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Satirical print showing the female figure of the French Republic drawing back a curtain to reveal the personalities who have controlled France for the past 20 years. To the right of the gap in the curtain is a caricature of Napoleon III, Le Grand Vautour de Sedan.
Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.
Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.
Object details
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| Title | La Menagerie Imperiale (series title) |
| Materials and techniques | Hand-coloured lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | 'La Menagerie Imperiale'. Title plate of a series of satirical illustrations by Paul Hadol showing the the female figure of the French Republic drawing back a curtain. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871. |
| Physical description | Satirical print showing the female figure of the French Republic drawing back a curtain to reveal the personalities who have controlled France for the past 20 years. To the right of the gap in the curtain is a caricature of Napoleon III, Le Grand Vautour de Sedan. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc. |
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| Gallery label | Paul Hadol (1835-75)
The figure of the Republic draws back the curtain to reveal the personalities who have controlled France for the past 20 years, stating her opinion of them. To the right of the gap in the curtain hovers their leader, Napoleon III.
The Empress Eugénie, Countess of Montijo, married Napoleon III in 1853. This caricature plays on the double meaning of 'La Grue', either a crane or a woman of loose morals. In 1869 the Empress visited Suez for the opening of the canal. Princess Mathilde said that the journey was purely an 'opportunity to make eyes at some Eastern prince from her steamboat'.
Napoleon III characterised as cowardly and ferocious.
The Prince Imperial was the only child of the Emperor and Empress. The artist draws him as a 'serin' [canary] a word which has a secondary sense of 'ignoramus'.
Lithographs, coloured by hand. From a series of 32. E.281-284-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971) |
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| Accession number | E.281-1962 |
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| Record created | January 27, 2009 |
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