La Poule
Print
1870-1871 (printed)
1870-1871 (printed)
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'LA POULE'; Lithograph, coloured by hand; Empress Eugénie lies naked on a billiard table, surrounded by (left to right): Prince Napoleon, Louis Veuillot, Bernard de Cassagnac, Emile Ollivier, Joseph Piétri and Napoleon III.
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.
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Title | La Poule (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Hand-coloured lithograph on paper |
Brief description | Paris Commune print; 'LA POULE'; Lithograph, coloured by hand; Empress Eugénie lies naked on a billiard table, surrounded by; Prince Napoleon, Louis Veuillot, Bernard de Cassagnac, Emile Ollivier, Joseph Piétri and Napoleon III; Anonymous; France; 1870-71. |
Physical description | 'LA POULE'; Lithograph, coloured by hand; Empress Eugénie lies naked on a billiard table, surrounded by (left to right): Prince Napoleon, Louis Veuillot, Bernard de Cassagnac, Emile Ollivier, Joseph Piétri and Napoleon III. 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 | Anonymous
Tales of debauchery and illict relationships emanated from the pleasure loving court of the Second Empire. Napoleon's carnal weaknesses were public knowledge and many of the rumours concerning his succession of mistresses were true. Those relating to the beautiful Eugénie were based on her informal and flirtatious manner. Here, branded as a 'poule' (a ‘hen’, with a secondary sense of ‘tart’) she lies naked on the billiard table, tapping a tambourine symbolic of her love of abandoned rhythmic dancing. The players are from left to right: Prince Napoleon, Louis Veuillot, Bernard de Cassagnac, Emile Ollivier, Joseph Piétri and Napoleon III. In fact the Empress is said to have been frigid and the stories of her adultery with her ministers are false.
Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.2236-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971) |
Object history | Provenance unknown. |
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Accession number | E.2236-1962 |
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Record created | January 28, 2009 |
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