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Mirabeau arrive aux Champs Élisées
Title
Mirabeau arrive aux Champs Élisées / J.M. Moreau le Jne. inv. ; F.J. Masquelier sculp.
Publication
A Paris : Chez Me. Desmaison rue St. Jacques, no. 43, [1792]
Physical Description
1 print : engraving & etching ; 23.3 x 33 cm, plate mark 30.0 x 38 cm
Local Notes
BEIN BrSides Folio 2019 248: On sheet 35.3 x 52.3 cm. On verso, stamped: E.B.H. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection.
BEIN BrSides 2019 493: Imperfect: Title, text below title, and imprint letters mutilated. On sheet trimmed to 23.3 x 33.0 cm. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection.
Notes
Title from caption below image.
Summary
Print shows Mirabeau at center arriving at the Champs Élisées where he hands a copy of the French Constitution to J.J. Rousseau as Benjamin Franklin reaches to place a wreath on his head; in the left background Fénelon, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Mably come to greet him, and in the right background Demosthenes and Cicero are talking together, on the far right, Charon uses an oar to push his boat off from shore. Without liberty cap on spear point and with letters on banner afixed to spear shaft: La France libre.
Format
Images
Language
French
Added to Catalog
September 22, 2021
References
Fridenberg, R. Catalogue of the engraved portraits of Franklin, Composition, 149g
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - French - 1790-1800.
Engravings.
Etchings.
Portraits.
Also listed under
Benjamin Franklin Collection (Yale University. Library)
France Paris.
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