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L'EXÉCUTIF

Print
1871 (made), 1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Pilotell, Georges Labadie (caricaturist)
Place of origin
Paris (made)
France (printed)

'L'EXÉCUTIF'; Centre spread of the newspaper La Caricature Politique, Saturday, 11 March 1871; Process engraving, coloured by hand; Adolphe Thiers, assisted by Jules Favre, is cuts the right arm off a woman (representing France). Five milliard francs are piled in sacks on the ground and the Republique Sociale sinks with the setting sun on the horizon. Signed PILOTELL.
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
TitleL'EXÉCUTIF (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Brief description
Paris Commune print; 'L'EXÉCUTIF'; Process engraving, coloured by hand; centre spread of the newspaper 'La Caricature Politique', Saturday, 11 March 1871; Adolphe Thiers, assisted by Jules Favre, cuts the right arm off a woman representing France; Pilotell, Georges Labadie; France; 1871.
Physical description
'L'EXÉCUTIF'; Centre spread of the newspaper La Caricature Politique, Saturday, 11 March 1871; Process engraving, coloured by hand; Adolphe Thiers, assisted by Jules Favre, is cuts the right arm off a woman (representing France). Five milliard francs are piled in sacks on the ground and the Republique Sociale sinks with the setting sun on the horizon. Signed PILOTELL.
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: 31.8cm
  • Width: 44.4cm
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
  • L'EXÉCUTIF (Title, lettered below design.)
  • LA CARICATURE (Lettered above design.)
  • La Caricature n’a pas paru pendant l’occupation de Paris par les troupes allemandes (Lettered above design.)
  • 10 C. (Priced above both corners of design.)
  • PILOTELL (Signed bottom-right of design.)
  • France and Alsace Lorraine and Republique Sociale (Lettered within design.)
  • (Most prints in this set are lettered with the names of artists and printers and have captions)
Gallery label
Georges Pilotell "Labadie" (1844-1918) Centre spread of the newspaper La Caricature Politique, Saturday, 11 March 1871. Signed Pilotell. Lettered La Caricature n’a pas paru pendant l’occupation de Paris par les troupes allemandes. Twice 10c. Process engraving, coloured by hand. 12½ x 17½ in. (31.8 x 44.4 cm.). E.2214-1962 Thiers assisted by Favre is caricatured cutting off the right arm of France, that is Alsace Lorraine, the provinces they ceded to the Germans. The five milliard francs are piled in sacks on the ground and dreams of a socially orientated Republic sink with the setting sun on the horizon. Process engraving, coloured by hand. E.2214-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Object history
Provenance unknown.
This print was centre spread of the newspaper La Caricature Politique, Saturday, 11 March 1871.
Subjects depicted
Men
Caricature
Woman
Helmet
Suns
Thiers, Adolphe
Favre, Jules
Marianne
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.2214-1962

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Record createdFebruary 6, 2009
Record URL
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