ID: 700001479 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001479	Record Type: Movable Work

Trait sublime de courage et de dévouement (etching (print); unknown (unknown nationality, artist); published: Chez Filli...; Published: ca. 1792; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2688-621; 688621; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.7,f.6))

Note: Printed on blue-green colored paper; "BEAUREPAIRE, Commandant du 1.er Bataillon de Mayenne et Loir, se donne la mort à Verdun ... / déposé au Panthéon Français, l'inscription suivante sera placé sur sa tombe: Il aima mieux mourir que de capituler avec les tyrans"--in the lower margin; The print depicts the presumed suicide on September 2, 1792, of the French military officer Nicolas-Joseph de Beaurepaire, who refused to surrender to the army of the Duke of Brunswick in Verdun; Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*). Publication: A Paris : Chez Fillion et Valmont, rue St. Jacques, à la Ville de Rouen, no. 8, [ca. 1792].

Titles:

Trait sublime de courage et de dévouement (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U)

Presumed suicide of French military officer Nicolas-Joseph de Beaurepaire in 1792 (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Trait sublime de courage et de dévouement; [graphic]. (C,U,French,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: ca. 1792

Creator Display:

unknown (unknown nationality, artist); published: Chez Fillion et Valmont, rue St. Jacques, à la Ville de Rouen, no. 8 [preferred,GRISC]

publishers Fillion et Valmont (French publisher, active late 18th century) [500354447]

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: 2688-621; 688621; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.7,f.6)

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] (Geographic)

Display Materials: 1 print: etching, hand coloring

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

	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)

Dimensions: image 15.5 x 22.8 cm, on sheet 17.7 x 24.5 cm

General Subject:

history and legend (preferred)

events

Specific Subjects:

	Beaurepaire, Nicolas-Joseph (French military officer, 1740-1792) [500354448]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

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

	revolutionaries [300237490]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by ideology| philosophy| or political activity>) (AAT)

	sieges [300379129]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), armed conflicts) (AAT)

	suicide [300069678]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), personal life events, deaths) (AAT)

	Battle of Verdun [901000310]
	.....((War of the First Coalition, French history, European history, Named Events)) (ICON)

Provenance: lfell; Purchase.

Inscriptions: Trait sublime de courage et de dévouement

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Trait sublime de courage et de dévouement	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 688621
Presumed suicide of French military officer Nicolas-Joseph de Beaurepaire in 1792	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Trait sublime de courage et de dévouement; [graphic].	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

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