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Les Communeux par H. Nérac

Print
1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Jailly (printer)
Xiat, H (caricaturist)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Satirical print in which Paschal Grousset is depicted as a moustachioed woman, wearing a red and blue dress and holding a barber's razor. 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
Hair and Hairstyles
Object type
Print
Titles
  • Les Communeux par H. Nérac (series title)
  • Paschal Grousset (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Paschal Grousset'. Satirical illustration by H. Xiat (H. Nérac) in which Paschal Grousset is depicted as a moustachioed woman, wearing a red and blue dress and holding a barber's razor. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1871.
Physical description
Satirical print in which Paschal Grousset is depicted as a moustachioed woman, wearing a red and blue dress and holding a barber's razor. 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: 31.4cm
  • Width: 19cm
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.
Copy number
4
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'No.4 Les Communeux par H. Nérac. Paschal Grousset Jailly Dessinr. Impr. Editr. 7 et 9 Rue Oberkampf. Paris. Tirage special sur papier de luxe pour les amateurs Les Grandes Demoiselles' (Lettered)
  • 'H. Nérac' (Signed)
Gallery label
(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
H. Nérac "Xiat"

Paschal Grousset, a dapper little Corsican, was the Commune's Delegate for Foreign Affairs. He was nicknamed the ‘Ladies Hairdresser’ by Henri de Rochefort.

Lithograph, coloured by hand.
From a series of 6. E.1449-1962
Subjects depicted
Man
Woman
Razor
Dress
Table (Support Furniture)
Wall-Papers
Shaving Brush
Grousset, Paschal
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.1449-1962

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Record createdFebruary 11, 2009
Record URL
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