Flourens
Print
1870-1871 (printed)
1870-1871 (printed)
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Satirical print in which Gustave Flourens, wearing spurs, tosses Jules Favre, Adolphe Thiers and Claude Picard in the air while trampling on General Trochu. 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 | Flourens (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Hand-coloured lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | 'Flourens'. Satirical illustration by B. Colomb ('Moloch') in which Gustave Flourens, wearing spurs, tosses Jules Favre, Adolphe Thiers and Claude Picard in the air while trampling on General Trochu. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871. |
| Physical description | Satirical print in which Gustave Flourens, wearing spurs, tosses Jules Favre, Adolphe Thiers and Claude Picard in the air while trampling on General Trochu. 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 | "Moloch" (pseudonym of Alphonse Hector Colomb) (1849-1909)
Gustave Flourens was a romantic revolutionary from a respected family. Here he tosses Favre, Thiers and Picard in the air while trampling on Trochu. During the attempt to overthrow the Government on 31 October he is said to have marched, imperious and magnificent, up and down the conference table disdainfully scattering the members of the Government of National Defence.
Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.1346-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971) |
| Historical context | Gustave Flourens was a romantic revolutionary from a respected family. He gave up a brilliant academic career to fight for the rights of the masses. He led a battalion of the National Guard from Belleville until their dispersal after the Hallowe'en revolt and after that his own private band of tireurs. He was brutally killed by the Versaillais' troops at Rueil on 3 April. His dead body was wheeled triumphantly through the streets of Versailles for all to see. |
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| Accession number | E.1346-1962 |
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| Record created | February 4, 2009 |
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