- Description
- Engraving, hand-colored; image: 23 x 36 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Caption above image: Ici l'on danse.
- Lower center: Vue de la Decoration et Illumination faite sur le Terrein de la Bastille pour le jour de la Fête de la Confédération Française le 14 Juillet 1790. A Paris chez J. Chereau Rue St. Jacques pres la Fontaine St. Severin aux Colonnes No. 257.
- Possibly engraved by Jacques-François Chereau.
- A great crowd is gathered to celebrate on the site of the Bastille, which is decorated as a huge dance pavilion. Depicts one of the Fêtes Révolutionnaires which took place on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille.
- Cf. *MGS (French) 89-2194. Chazin-Bennahum, Judith. Dance in the shadow of the guillotine, 1988. Reproduction, p. 83.
- Call Number
- *MGZFH Che J Ici 1
- OCLC
- NYPY906045136-F
- Author
Chereau, Jacques-François, 1742-1794.
- Title
Ici l'on danse.
- Imprint
Paris, 1790.
- Local Note
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- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Bastille Day.
Politics in art -- France.
Prints (Graphic arts) -- 18th century.
- Research Call Number
*MGZFH Che J Ici 1