Le Paladin Paladines
Print
1870-1871 (printed)
1870-1871 (printed)
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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.
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Title | Le 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. |
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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) |
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Accession number | E.1233-1962 |
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Record created | February 10, 2009 |
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