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Le Paladin Paladines

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

Satirical print in which General d' Aurelle de Paladines is shown wearing a large hat and a horse costume. 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
Object type
TitleLe Paladin Paladines (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Brief description
'Le Paladin Paladines'. Satirical illustration by Paul Klenck in which General d' Aurelle de Paladines is shown wearing a large hat and a horse costume. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Satirical print in which General d' Aurelle de Paladines is shown wearing a large hat and a horse costume. 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: 31cm
  • Width: 22.2cm
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 Paladin Paladines Imp. Talons marche St Hono' (Lettered)
  • 'P. Klenck' (Signed)
  • 'No. 19' (Numbered)
Gallery label
Paul Klenck "Peka" (born 1844) The National Assembly appointed the reactionary General d' Aurelle de Paladines to succeed Clément Thomas as Commander of the Paris National Guard. He was extremely unpopular on account of his Bonapartist past and because, having led the First Army of the Loire to disaster at Orléans, he was branded as the man who had failed to rescue Paris. A Paladin was a knight of Charlemagne's court. With a pun on the General's title, Klenck suggests his connections with an Empire created some 1,000 years later. Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.1233-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Subjects depicted
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
Accession number
E.1233-1962

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Record createdFebruary 10, 2009
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