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Le Nouveau Joseph Et La Nouvelle Putiphar

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Renaux, Ed (caricaturist)
Place of origin
France (printed)

'LE NOUVEAU JOSEPH ET LA NOUVELLE PUTIPHAR'; Lithograph, coloured by hand; Empress Eugénie with Emile Ollivier in a boudoir, in the background is Emperor Napoleon III with cuckold's horns.
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
Caricatures & Cartoons
Prints
Object type
Print
Titles
  • Le Nouveau Joseph Et La Nouvelle Putiphar (assigned by artist)
  • Actualités (series title)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
Paris Commune print; 'LE NOUVEAU JOSEPH ET LA NOUVELLE PUTIPHAR'; Lithograph, coloured by hand; Empress Eugénie with Emile Ollivier in a boudoir, in the background is Emperor Napoleon III with cuckold's horns; Renaux, Ed ('Marcia'); France; 1870-71.
Physical description
'LE NOUVEAU JOSEPH ET LA NOUVELLE PUTIPHAR'; Lithograph, coloured by hand; Empress Eugénie with Emile Ollivier in a boudoir, in the background is Emperor Napoleon III with cuckold's horns.
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: 24.4cm
  • Width: 28.9cm
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
  • Le Nouveau Joseph et la Nouvelle Putiphar (Title, lettered below design.)
  • No. 36 (Numbered, top-right corner.)
  • En vente chez Grognet imp. R. des ecoles 16. Depot chez madre r. du croissant (Lettered below design, above title.)
  • ACTUALITIÉS (Lettered above design.)
  • Ed. Renaux (Signed, bottom-right of design.)
  • (Most prints in this set are lettered with the names of artists and printers and have captions)
Gallery label
Ed Renaux "Marcia" The caricaturist draws a parallel between the Biblical story of Potiphar's wife (who made advances towards Joseph after her husband had promoted him to oversee his estate) and the conduct of the Empress in deceiving the Emperor with Ollivier, the minister he had placed at the head of the Government. Napoleon III is portrayed in the background with cuckold's horns. Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.2237-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Object history
Provenance unknown.
Subjects depicted
Caricatures
Woman
Man
Couch
Boudoirs (Rooms)
Bonaparte, Napoleon III
The Empress Eugenie
Ollivier, Émile
Literary reference'Potiphar's Wife': Biblical story of Potiphar’s wife who made advances towards Joseph after her husband had promoted him to oversee his estate.
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
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2237-1962

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Record createdJanuary 28, 2009
Record URL
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