Souvenirs De La Commune Par Léonce Schérer
Print
1871 (printed)
1871 (printed)
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Print depicting Gustave Courbet, holding a small mallet and hammering at a small pile of stones. He is standing in front of a scene in which the Vendome column is demolished in sections. 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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| Materials and techniques | Hand-coloured lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | 'L'homme qui était un jour appelé a démolir la Colonne...' Satirical illustration by Léonce Schérer depicting Gustave Courbet, holding a small mallet and hammering at a small pile of stones. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1871. |
| Physical description | Print depicting Gustave Courbet, holding a small mallet and hammering at a small pile of stones. He is standing in front of a scene in which the Vendome column is demolished in sections. 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 | Léonce Schérer (1827-76)
As the Vendôme Column heels over and breaks up into sections Courbet hacks away at a pile of stones. This is a reference to his painting ‘The Stonebreakers’, exhibited at the Salon of 1850-51, which Proudhon later labelled the ‘first socialist painting’.'
Lithograph, coloured by hand.
From a series of 30. E.1807-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971) |
| Object history | Provenance unknown. Plate 21 from a series of 30 entitled SOUVENIRS DE LA COMMUNE. |
| Historical context | As early as September 1870, the French painter Gustave Courbet had urged the demolition of the Vendôme Column on the grounds that it was a symbol of Bonapartism and that it offended his artistic sensibilities. On 12 April 1871, the Commune authorized its destruction, which was carried out with great celebrations on 16 May. After the war Courbet, who was elected to the Commune at the April by-elections, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and ordered to pay an enormous fine towards the column's reconstruction. To avoid finding the sum he fled to Switzerland. |
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| Accession number | E.1807-1962 |
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| Record created | February 12, 2009 |
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