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La Loge De Clarisse

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
De Frondat, Napoléon Charles Louis (caricaturist)
Deplanche (printer)
Place of origin
France (printed)

Satirical print depicting Adolphe Thiers wearing a woman's dress, looking into a hand-mirror. On the wall hangs a portrait of Louis-Philippe; his attributes: the pear and the umbrella, are also present in the room. 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
TitleLa Loge De Clarisse (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'La Loge De Clarisse'. Satirical illustration by Napoléon Charles Louis de Frondat depicting Adolphe Thiers wearing a woman's dress, looking into a hand-mirror. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Satirical print depicting Adolphe Thiers wearing a woman's dress, looking into a hand-mirror. On the wall hangs a portrait of Louis-Philippe; his attributes: the pear and the umbrella, are also present in the room. 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: 25.4cm
  • Width: 14.6cm
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
  • 'Les Coulisses Du Grand Théâtre De Bordeaux. Imp. Deplanche, Pass. Du Caire 73, Paris. Depôt Chez Madre, 20, Rue du Croissant, En Vente Chez Duclaux, 21, Place du Chateau-d'Eau. Paris La Loge De Clarisse' (Lettered above design.)
  • 'Monarchie de Juillet' (Lettered within design.)
  • 'de Frondat' (Signed bottom-right of design.)
Gallery label
Napoleon Charles Louis De Frondat (born 1846) Thiers prepares for the show in the Grand Théâtre at Bordeaux, the eighteenth century theatre where the National Assembly held its first sitting. The portrait of Louis-Philippe and his attributes: the pear and the umbrella refer to Thier's royalist past. Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.1100-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Object history
Provenance unknown.
Subjects depicted
Hand-Mirror
Umbrella
Dresses
Wallpaper
Dressing Table
Pears
Thiers, Adolphe
Louis-Philippe (King of France)
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.1100-1962

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Record createdFebruary 6, 2009
Record URL
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