ID: 700001212 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001212	Record Type: Movable Work

Convoi de très haut et très puissant seigneur des abus mort sous le règne de Louis XVI le 27 avril 1789 (etching (print); published: Chez Sergent, rue Mauconseil, no. 62; published 1789; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2698-854; 698854; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.20,f.1))

Note: The print was censored during Spring 1789, see letter of Charles Poitevin de Maissemy to Louis Thiroux de Crosme, general lieutenant of the police, Archives nationales, Paris, V₂ 551; The allegorical print on the abuses and the decadence of the Ancien Régime is represented by a funeral procession of the "Lord of Abuses" who is said to have died on April 27, 1789; On the left, victims of the Lord of Abuses, Rousseau, Grandier, Latude, Sirven, Joan of Arc, Calas, Salmon, and Monbailly, stand near trophies of music and the arts. On the right, the nobility and the clergy proceed through a ruined edifice and a deserted landscape, headed by finance minister Jacques Necker; Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*). Publication: A Paris : Chez Sergent, rue Mauconseil, no. 62, [1789].

Titles:

Convoi de très haut et très puissant seigneur des abus mort sous le règne de Louis XVI le 27 avril 1789 (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U)

Allegorical depiction of the funeral procession of the "Lord of Abuses," who represents the decadence of the Ancien Régime (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

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)

prints (visual works) [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 1789

Creator Display:

published: Chez Sergent, rue Mauconseil, no. 62 [preferred,GRISC]

publishers Sergent-Marceau, Antoine François (French printmaker and author, 1751-1847) [500025639]

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: 2698-854; 698854; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.20,f.1)

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

Other: Publication: Paris [7008038] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: 1 print: etching, tool work, brown ink

	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)

	tooling [300053876]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <surface marking processes and techniques>)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Dimensions: image 39.5 x 57.5 cm, on sheet 52.5 x 65.5 cm

General Subject:

allegory (preferred)

satire

history and legend

Specific Subjects:

	despotism [300055515]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), social science concepts, political concepts, <political ideologies and attitudes>) (AAT)

	funerals [300069162]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, ceremonies, cultural ceremonies, rites of passage) (AAT)

	Estates-General (French representative assembly, active until 1789) [500354278]
	.....(Corporate Bodies) (ULAN)

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

	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)

	Calas, Jean (French merchant, 1698-1762) [500354273]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Furies [901000235]
	.....((Roman characters, Roman iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Grandier, Urbain (French priest, 1590-1634) [500354274]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	history (literary genre) [300026358]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for literature>) (AAT)

	Joan, of Arc, Saint (French saint and heroine, 1412-1431) [500343198]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Latude, Jean Henri (French writer, 1725-1805) [500354275]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Necker, Jacques (French government official, 1732-1804) [500354260]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (French philosopher and author, 1712-1778) [500250225]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Salmon, Marie-Françoise-Victoire (French servant, born 1760) [500354276]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Sirven, Pierre-Paul (French surveyor, 1709-1777) [500354277]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

Provenance: lfell; Purchase.

Inscriptions: Convoi de très haut et très puissant seigneur des abus mort sous le règne de Louis XVI le 27 avril 1789. Key in the lower margin to the figures in the procession, lettered A to M.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Convoi de très haut et très puissant seigneur des abus mort sous le règne de Louis XVI le 27 avril 1789	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 698854
Allegorical depiction of the funeral procession of the "Lord of Abuses," who represents the decadence of the Ancien Régime	........ [VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) note

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

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

....................... Bruel, L'estampe, 1770-1871 : Collection de Vinck (1909-1979) 2764

....................... La caricature révolutionnaire / André Blum no. 1

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