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La Brance d'Oliver (Eugénie)

Print
1870-71 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The Empress Eugénie looking upwards and carrying a branch in her left hand and a handkerchief in her right. 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

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • La Brance d'Oliver (Eugénie) (assigned by artist)
  • Affiliation de Badinguet (series title)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Brief description
'La Brance d'Oliver (Eugénie)'. Satirical print showing the Empress Eugénie carrying a branch in her hand, by E. Rosambeau. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
The Empress Eugénie looking upwards and carrying a branch in her left hand and a handkerchief in her right. 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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 28.2cm
  • Width: 18.3cm
Dimensions from: Lambert, Susan. The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71. catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1971.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Affiliation de Badinguet La Branche d'Olivier (Eugénie) Se vend chez Grognet: Imp. Edit r. des Ecoles, 16.' (Lettered)
  • '2' (Numbered)
Gallery label
E Rosambeau "Morsabeau" The Empress carries a plant which symbolizes her supposed adultery with Émile Ollivier. Lithograph, coloured by hand. From a series of 10. E.272-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Lambert, Susan, The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71: catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, V&A, 1971
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.272-1962

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Record createdJanuary 28, 2009
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