Descente dans les Ateliers de la Liberté de la presse (Raid on the Workshops of the Freedom of the Press)

1833

Jean-Ignace-Isidore Grandville, and Auguste Desperet

Associated Names
Jean-Ignace-Isidore Grandville

Artist, French, 1803 - 1847

Auguste Desperet

Artist, French, 1804 - 1865

The image shows a group of people in a busy room engaged in various activities. In the center, a woman in a light-colored dress is being held by two men. Surrounding them are men in dark suits, some with hats. On the left, one man appears to be restraining another person seated. On the right, a group of men in hats and jackets are gathered around a press labeled "PRESSE PATRIOTIQUE." Some men hold rods or batons. The scene takes place inside a room with tall windows, papers hanging from above, and printed sheets and a fallen printing frame on the floor. Shelves with books are visible in the background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 22.2 × 43.4 cm (8 3/4 × 17 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 32.4 × 49.9 cm (12 3/4 × 19 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.126.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1800), no. 44

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1930

  • IFF (1800): no. 44

Inscriptions

upper left above image: 16me. Dessin de l'Association (Mois de Novembre); below image: Chez Aubert, galerie véro dodat; DESCENT... / en choeur: Travaillons / Dépêchons / Gagnons bien notre argent!; lower right below image: L. de Becquet, rue Furstemberg 6.; lower left in image: J J. Grandville et AD

Wikidata ID

Q76561483

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