ID: 700001210 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001210	Record Type: Movable Work

Les extrêmes se touchent (etching (print); unknown (etcher); Published: 1795-1796; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2698-734; 698734; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.19,f.13))

Note: A nobleman and a sans-culotte squabble, the former using an umbrella as a weapon, while the latter is about to punch his opponent; Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*). Publication: [1795-1796]. [Title from a French expression meaning that the extremes are the same: monarchic despotism and the terror that followed it were equally abuses of power.]

Titles:

Les extrêmes se touchent (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,,)

The extremes are the same: Monarchic despotism and the terror are equal abuses (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Les extrêmes se touchent; [graphic]. (C,U,undetermined,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

print (visual work) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: 1795-1796

Creator Display:

unknown (etcher) [preferred,VP]

etcher unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2698-734; 698734; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.19,f.13)

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: etching, hand colored

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	hand coloring [300133555]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <additive and joining processes and techniques>, coloring (process))

Dimensions: plate mark 30 x 20 cm, on sheet 35.5 x 26.5 cm

General Subject:

satire (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	nobleman [300236547]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by state or condition>, aristocrats, nobles (aristocrats), <nobles by gender>) (AAT)

	sansculotte [300379145]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by ideology| philosophy| or political activity>, revolutionaries) (AAT)

	caricatures [300015634]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by form>, <visual works by form of image>) (AAT)

	battle [300185692]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), armed conflicts) (AAT)

	umbrella [300046227]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by context>, personal equipment) (AAT)

	French Revolution [901000102]
	.....((French history, European history, Named Events)) (ICON)

Provenance: lfell; Purchase.

Inscriptions: Les extrêmes se touchent

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Les extrêmes se touchent	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 698734
The extremes are the same: Monarchic despotism and the terror are equal abuses	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Les extrêmes se touchent; [graphic].	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Note:
English	..... [GRISC,VP]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)