Napolean,St Cloud,Paris,France,1799,James Gillray

Title: Exit libertè a la Francois! or Buonaparte closing the farce of Egalité, at St. Cloud near Paris Novr. 10th 1799 / Js. Gillray inv' & f'.
Creator(s): Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist
Date Created/Published: [London] : Publishd by H. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street, 1799 Novr. 21st.
Summary: British satire shows Napoleon with his grenadiers driving the members of the Council of Five Hundred from the Orangery at St. Cloud at bayonet point. A drum is labeled 'Vive la Liberte,' and papers under foot read 'Resignation des Directoires' and 'Un liste de Membres du Conseil des Cinque Cents.' On November 10, 1799, in a move known as the Coup d'État of Eighteenth Brumaire, Napoleon seized control of the French government and installed himself as First Consul, thereafter governing as a dictator. James Gillray was the dominant caricaturist of his period, producing popular savage cartoons of the English court of George III and later of Napoleon and the French Revolution.
Notes:
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9426
Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
PR 13 CN 2001:055-4 Exhibited: 'Timely and Timeless' at the Graphic Arts Galleries, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011-2012.
Unprocessed in WOOD/Gillray.118
Hoff, Syd. Editorial and political cartooning, p. 38; Parton, James, Caricature and other comic art, p. 153, 267-68 ljr
Subjects:
Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821
France.--Corps législatif (1795-1814).--Conseil des cinq-cents
France--History--Coup d'état, 1799.
Soldiers--French--1790-1800.
Etchings--Hand-colored--British--1790-1800.
Satires (Visual works)--British--1790-1800.
Bookmark /2005680371/
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