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Grandeur Adulation

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Stick (caricaturist)
Place of origin
France (printed)

'GRANDEUR. ADULATION'; Lithograph; Emile Ollivier, depicted as a bird, and a naked Empress Eugénie stare longingly at each other. Signed Stick.
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
TitleGrandeur Adulation (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Brief description
Paris Commune print; 'GRANDEUR. ADULATION'; Lithograph; Emile Ollivier, depicted as a bird, and a naked Empress Eugénie stare longingly at each other; 'Stick'; France; 1870-71.
Physical description
'GRANDEUR. ADULATION'; Lithograph; Emile Ollivier, depicted as a bird, and a naked Empress Eugénie stare longingly at each other. Signed Stick.
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: 31.8cm
  • Width: 24.7cm
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
  • Grandeur Adulation (Title, lettered below design.)
  • Stick (Signed, bottom-left of design.)
  • En Vente chez Prouté, 44. rue Descartes. / Lith Lubin (?) 13, rue Ségnier, Paris. / Depôt chez. Saillant. 5 et 10. rue du Croissant (Lettered, running along below design.)
  • (Most prints in this set are lettered with the names of artists and printers and have captions)
Gallery label
Stick The Empress Regent and Ollivier stare longingly at one another. In fact Ollivier’s early impressions of Eugénie were not particularly enthusiastic. Nevertheless he came to appreciate her mind: ‘More than her beauty . . . I was impressed by her ability to understand and discuss everything, by her resilient intelligence, her vivid talk animated by original flashes of wit . . .’. Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.2243-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Object history
Provenance unknown.
Subjects depicted
Caricatures
Woman
Bird
Tambourine
The Empress Eugenie
Ollivier, Émile
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.2243-1962

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Record createdJanuary 28, 2009
Record URL
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