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Fête à l'Etre suprême aux Tuileries, 8 juin 1794
- Title
- Fête à l'Etre suprême aux Tuileries, 8 juin 1794 [graphic] / J. Duplessi Bertaux, inv. & sculp.
- Author
- Duplessi-Bertaux, Jean, 1750-1818.
- Publication
- 1797.
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- Additional Authors
- David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825.
- Description
- 1 print : etching, b&w; 26 x 32 cm., plate mark 24 x 30 cm.
- Summary
- Depiction of the Tuileries Palace, one of the sites of the Festival of the Supreme Being, ordered by Robespierre and designed by Jacques-Louis David, and celebrated in Paris on the twentieth day of Prairial in Year II (June 8, 1794). The crowds represented here include both civilians and military men bearing standards and weapons.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Etchings.
- Note
- Title penciled on the verso in an unknown hand.
- Biography (note)
- The Festival of the Supreme Being was intended to inaugurate a deist state religion for the new French Republic.
- Possibly an early state of an etching attributed to engraver Pierre-Gabriel Berthault after Jean Duplessi-Bertaux, titled Fête a l'Etre suprême: le 8 juin 1794, ou 20 prairial an 2.eme de la République. The version held by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France has a darker sky, with clouds, and more shading of the buildings.
- Call Number
- *MGZFX Dup J Fet 1
- OCLC
- 825550891
- Author
- Duplessi-Bertaux, Jean, 1750-1818.
- Title
- Fête à l'Etre suprême aux Tuileries, 8 juin 1794 [graphic] / J. Duplessi Bertaux, inv. & sculp.
- Imprint
- 1797.
- Biography
- The Festival of the Supreme Being was intended to inaugurate a deist state religion for the new French Republic.Possibly an early state of an etching attributed to engraver Pierre-Gabriel Berthault after Jean Duplessi-Bertaux, titled Fête a l'Etre suprême: le 8 juin 1794, ou 20 prairial an 2.eme de la République. The version held by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France has a darker sky, with clouds, and more shading of the buildings.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
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- Added Author
- David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825. Associated name
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFX Dup J Fet 1