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Figures Du Jour Par Bertall

Print
1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
D'Arnoux, Albert (caricaturist)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Front page of the first number of the weekly newspaper 'Le Grelot', with an illustration depicting Adolphe-Alphonse Assi sitting and holding a collection of telescopes. To his right is a lobster wearing a saddle lettered 'Selle de Versailles', and to his left a sea-creature wearing a saddle lettered 'Selle de Charenton'. 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
Titles
  • Figures Du Jour Par Bertall (series title)
  • Le citoyen Assi (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured gillotage on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Le citoyen Assi'. Satirical illustration by Albert d'Arnoux in which Adolphe-Alphonse Assi sits holding a collection of telescopes. From the front page of the newspaper 'Le Grelot', 9 April 1871. Hand-coloured gillotage, 1871.
Physical description
Front page of the first number of the weekly newspaper 'Le Grelot', with an illustration depicting Adolphe-Alphonse Assi sitting and holding a collection of telescopes. To his right is a lobster wearing a saddle lettered 'Selle de Versailles', and to his left a sea-creature wearing a saddle lettered 'Selle de Charenton'. 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: 43.2cm
  • Width: 28.5cm
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
  • 'FIGURES DU JOUR PAR BERTALL' (Series title, lettered above design)
  • 'Le citoyen ASSI' (Title, lettered below design)
  • 'ENTRE DEUX SELLES (A PARIS ENTRE VERSAILLED ET CHARENTON)' (Lettered below design and title.)
  • 'E. Gillot. sc.' (Signed, bottom-left of design)
  • 'Bertall' (Inscribed with facsimile signature, bottom-left of design)
  • 'Selle de Versailles écrevisse des salons' and 'Selle de Charenton Pieuvre des caboulots' (Lettered within the design)
  • (Lettered with details of the paper's publication.)
Gallery label
After "Bertall" (pseudonym of Albert d'Arnoux) (1820-82) Adolphe-Alphonse Assi, a member of the International, led the Comité Central during its brief spell at the Hôtel de Ville. Many Parisians criticized the Comité for their refusal to recognize their revolutionary position and take action against Versailles. Here, Assi is accused of sitting on the fence between Versailles and Charenton, a small town near Paris, notable only for its lunatic asylum. Gillotage, coloured by hand. E.2219-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Subjects depicted
Man
Telescope
Lobsters
Saddles
Boots
Sword
Assi, Adolphe-Alphonse
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.2219-1962

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Record createdFebruary 11, 2009
Record URL
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