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Les Folies De La Commune

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Rouge Frères Et Comp. (printer)
Noé, Amédée-Charles-Henry De (Comte) (caricaturist)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Print in which Gustave Courbet stands next to the Vendôme Column, wearing uniform, his hands behind his back. 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
  • Les Folies De La Commune (series title)
  • Le Chatiment De Courbet (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Le Chatiment De Courbet'. Satirical illustration by Amédée-Charles-Henry de Noé (Cham) in which Gustave Courbet stands next to the Vendôme Column. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Print in which Gustave Courbet stands next to the Vendôme Column, wearing uniform, his hands behind his back. 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: 27cm
  • Width: 18.7cm
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 7 Les Folies De La Commune Paris. - Typ. Rouge frères et Comp.' (Lettere)
  • 'Le Chatiment De Courbet. / Le nommer gardien de la Colonne relevée.' (Lettered with caption)
  • 'CHAM 52' (Signed)
Object history
Provenance unknown.
First published in Le Charivari on 27 June 1871.
Republished in the state reproduced as plate 7 from a series of 20 entitled LES FOLIES 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.
Subjects depicted
Man
Hat
Memorial Column
Vendôme Column
Epaulettes
Uniform
Courbet, Jean Désiré Gustave
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: Victoria and Albert Museum, 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.1773-1962

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Record createdFebruary 12, 2009
Record URL
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