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Les Folies De La Commune

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

Print in which Saint Médard, with beard and halo, is pumping water down from the clouds onto Paris and people carrying umbrellas. 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)
  • Saint Médard S'Entêtant A Ne Croire A La Fin Des In (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Saint Médard S'Entêtant A Ne Croire A La Fin Des In'. Satirical illustration by Amédée-Charles-Henry de Noé (Cham) showing Saint Médard pumping water down from the clouds onto Paris. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1871.
Physical description
Print in which Saint Médard, with beard and halo, is pumping water down from the clouds onto Paris and people carrying umbrellas. 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: 26.3cm
  • Width: 20.3cm
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
  • 'No 13 Les Folies De La Commune Paris. - Typ. Rouge frères et Comp.' (Lettered)
  • 'Saint Médard S'Entêtant A Ne Croire A La Fin Des In' (Lettered with caption)
  • 'CHAM / 57' (Signed)
Gallery label
(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
"Cham" (pseudonym of Amadée Charles Henri, Count of Noë) (1819-79)

On 26 May torrential rain began to fall and extinguished the fires. Saint Médard is popularly believed to control the weather.

Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.1779-1962
Object history
First published in Le Charivari on 3 July 1871. Republished in the state reproduced as plate 13 from a series of 20 entitled 'Les Folies De La Commune'.
Subjects depicted
Clouds
Pumps (Machinery)
Umbrellas
People
Halo
Médard (Saint)
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.1779-1962

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Record createdFebruary 12, 2009
Record URL
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