La Commission Exécutive Par Bertall
Print
23/04/1871 (published)
23/04/1871 (published)
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'LA COMMISSION EXÉCUTIVE PAR BERTALL'; Gillotage, coloured by hand; Several members of the Commune's Executive Commission (including Edouard Vaillant, Frédéric Cournet, Eugène Vermorel, Félix Pyat and erroneously Louis Charles Delescluze) depicted as a bunch of faded flowers. Signed Gillot (s)c and inscribed with the facsimile signature Bertall.
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.
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
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| Title | La Commission Exécutive Par Bertall (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | Paris Commune print; 'LA COMMISSION EXÉCUTIVE PAR BERTALL'; gillotage, coloured by hand; Several members of the Commune's Executive Commission (including Edouard Vaillant, Frédéric Cournet, Eugène Vermorel, Félix Pyat and erroneously Louis Charles Delescluze) depicted as a bunch of faded flowers; front page of 'Le Grelot', Sunday, 23 April 1871; d' Arnoux, Albert ('Bertall'); 1871. |
| Physical description | 'LA COMMISSION EXÉCUTIVE PAR BERTALL'; Gillotage, coloured by hand; Several members of the Commune's Executive Commission (including Edouard Vaillant, Frédéric Cournet, Eugène Vermorel, Félix Pyat and erroneously Louis Charles Delescluze) depicted as a bunch of faded flowers. Signed Gillot (s)c and inscribed with the facsimile signature Bertall. 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 | After "Bertall" (pseudonym of Albert d' Arnoux) (1820-82)
The Commune's business was divided between nine commissions including an Executive Commission, which was meant to implement decrees passed by the other commissions. In fact, since every measure had to be referred back to the Commune itself, it had very little power. This system was disappointingly similar to traditional and bourgeois patterns of government. The artist scoffs at the Commune's lack of originality, presenting several members of the Executive Commission as a bunch of faded flowers.
Gillotage, coloured by hand. E.2221-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971) |
| Object history | Provenance unknown. This print was on the front page of the third number of the weekly newspaper Le Grelot, Sunday, 23 April 1871. |
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| Accession number | E.2221-1962 |
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| Record created | February 11, 2009 |
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