2018.15: The Aristocrats Each Play their Games to Break up the Estates General: The First Year of our Liberty

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2018.15

People

Unidentified Artist
Published by Pierre-Fiacre Peroux, French (Orleans 1743 - 1808)

Title

The Aristocrats Each Play their Games to Break up the Estates General: The First Year of our Liberty

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Les aristocrates jouant chaqun leurs jeux afin depouvoir desunir les Etats Generaux: L'An premier de la liberte

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1790

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/360197

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Woodcut stencilled in blue, red, yellow, green and brown

Technique

Woodcut

Dimensions

image: 54.5 × 74.5 cm (21 7/16 × 29 5/16 in.)
sheet: 66.8 × 87.2 cm (26 5/16 × 34 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: in block, top edge, in swag: LES ARISTOCRATE JOUANT CHAQUN LEURS JEU AFIN DE POUVOIR
• inscription: in block, center, in swag: DESUNIR LES ETAS GENERAUX LAN PREMIE DE LA LIBERTE 1790
• inscription: in block, center left: prend garde labéce jeu la pouroit / nous mencer a la lanterne
• inscription: in block, center left: prenons garde a noils mt / la bé il sons plus Fin que nous
• inscription: in block, center, right: magicienne consultée / sur le sors de la revolution
• inscription: in block, lower left: jespere que chacun / aura son tour
• inscription: in block, lower right: marquis si je vous fais / dancer la bé paijira le violon
• inscription: in block, lower right: CHEZ PEROU

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Unidentified Paris Auction]. [Unidentified dealer], sold; to [Hünersdorff Rare Books, London], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints

Accession Year

2018

Object Number

2018.15

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Printed on four sheets of overlapping paper

Publication History

• Catalogue 29: Selected Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Maps, Drawings & Autograph Letters, auct. cat., Hünersdorff Rare Books (London, 2017), no. 185, np, repr.

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