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Avant la Guerre

Print
1870-1871 (printed), 1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Jaugey, Louis (caricaturist)
Place of origin
France (printed)

Napoleon III depicted as a peacock, with a sash lettered '2 Décembre, 1852'. To his right are several bags of gold, one labelled 'Budjet de La Guerre' and another 'Impôts'. Below the image runs the caption. 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
Prints
Caricatures & Cartoons
Object type
Print
TitleAvant la Guerre (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Brief description
'Avant la Guerre'. Satirical illustration by Louis Jaugey depicting Napoleon III as a peacock. Lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Napoleon III depicted as a peacock, with a sash lettered '2 Décembre, 1852'. To his right are several bags of gold, one labelled 'Budjet de La Guerre' and another 'Impôts'. Below the image runs the caption. 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: 27.3cm
  • Width: 22.3cm
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
  • 'AVANT LA GUERRE / Sur l’air de Fleur de Thé' (Title, lettered above design.)
  • 'Je bois tout. . . . je mange tout. . . . je fourre ma queue partout . . . . par . . . par . . . partout Louis Jaugey del et imp a Forest lez-Brux. Déposé' (Lettered beneath)
  • 'Louis Jaugey. del et imp. a Forest lez-Brux. / Déposé' (Lettered below design.)
  • 'No. I.' (Numbered, top-left corner, above design.)
Gallery label
(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Louis Jaugey

Napoleon III struts resplendent as a peacock with a sash lettered with the date on which he took the title Emperor, across his breast. To his right are several bags of gold, a reference to the heavy taxes imposed to raise money for his unsuccessful quest for 'La Gloire' abroad. The daisy on the diagrammatic cardboard horse to his left refers to his mistress Marguerite Bellanger.

Lithograph. E.257-1962
Subjects depicted
Coronets (Crowns)
Peacock
Caricature
Bonaparte, Napoleon III
Place depicted
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.257-1962

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Record createdJanuary 27, 2009
Record URL
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