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Deux Saints Captifs

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Xiat, H (caricaturist)
Barousse (lithographer)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Satirical print in which Abbé Déguerry and the Archbishop of Paris, Mgr Darboy, are enclosed together in a corset. 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
  • Deux Saints Captifs (assigned by artist)
  • Les Indispensables (series title)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Deux Saints Captifs'. Satirical illustration by H. Xiat in which Abbé Déguerry and the Archbishop of Paris, Mgr Darboy, are enclosed together in a corset. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Satirical print in which Abbé Déguerry and the Archbishop of Paris, Mgr Darboy, are enclosed together in a corset. 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: 32.7cm
  • Width: 21.9cm
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
  • 'No.2. Les Indispensables. Le CORSET-PAR H. XIAT' (Numbered and titled above design)
  • 'DEUX SAINTS CAPTIFS' (Lettered below design)
  • 'Mr. Déguerry-Curé de La Madeleine. / Mgr Darboy Archevêque de Paris' (Lettered within design.)
  • 'H. Xiat' (Signed, bottom-right of design)
  • 'Lith. Barousse, à Paris. / Dépôt ch Madre, Ed. r. du Croissant, 20' (Lettered below design)
Gallery label
H Nérac "Xiat" The Abbé Déguerry, the Empress Eugénie's confessor, and the Archbishop of Paris, Mgr Darboy, are enclosed in a corset emblematic of their rigid beliefs. They were both arrested on 4 April 1871 on the grounds that they were hostile to the Commune. Rigault's real intention, however, was to exchange them for his hero, Blanqui. Rigault believed that Blanqui, who had been imprisoned at Versailles on 17 March, was the one person with the power to resolve all the Commune's problems. Thiers was of the same opinion and refused to make the bargain. The Archbishop and Abbé Déguerry languished in the Mazas prison along with several hundred other priests until 24 May, when they were transferred to La Roquette. That evening they were shot by a group of inexperienced volunteers, who missed the Archbishop in the first volley. When Thier's troops discovered the Archbishop's body in the Pere-Lachaise cemetery, they marched 147 captured communard prisoners to the spot and shot them. Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.1334-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Object history
This lithograph was Plate 2 from a series entitled 'Les Indispensables'.
Subjects depicted
Men
Corsets
Crucifix
Hats
Déguerry, Gaspard (?) (Abbé)
Darboy, Georges (Archbishop of Paris)
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.1334-1962

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Record createdFebruary 12, 2009
Record URL
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