ID: 700001507 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001507	Record Type: Movable Work

L'œuf à la coque (etching (print); unknown (etcher); Published: ca. 1789; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2691-134; 691134; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.16,f.1))

Note: "L'ŒUF A LA COQUE"--in lower margin; On June 27, 1789, King Louis XVI invited the clergy and the nobility to join the Third Estate and form the National Assembly; The print shows a member of the Third Estate, a nobleman, and a clergyman, gathered around an oversize egg, into which they dip sippets; Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*). Publication: [ca. 1789].

Titles:

L'œuf à la coque (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,,)

The boiled egg: Satirical print of members of the Third Estate sharing food (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Oeuf à la coque. (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: ca. 1789

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: 2691-134; 691134; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.16,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

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)

	tool work (printmaking marks) [300379420]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, <identifying markings and symbols>, marks (identifying markings), <marks by process or technique>)

	colored ink [300126356]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, ink, <ink by property>)

Dimensions: image 18.8 x 25 cm, plate mark 22.4 x 28.8 cm, on sheet 26.4 x 39.3 cm

General Subject:

allegory (preferred)

satire

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)

	clergyman [300025747]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion) (AAT)

	commoner [300379349]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), groups of people, social groups, social classes, <social classes by specific type>) (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)

	Assemblée nationale constituante (French legistlative body, 1789-1791) [500354490]
	.....(Corporate Bodies) (ULAN)

	social status [300065206]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), social science concepts, sociological concepts) (AAT)

	harmony (artistic concept) [300056276]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, artistic concepts, formal concepts (artistic concept)) (AAT)

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

Provenance: lfell; Purchase.

Inscriptions: L'$58oeuf $02a la coque

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
L'œuf à la coque	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 691134
The boiled egg: Satirical print of members of the Third Estate sharing food	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Oeuf à la coque.	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

....................... Bruel, L'estampe, 1770-1871 : Collection de Vinck (1909-1979) 2780

....................... La caricature révolutionnaire / André Blum no. 79

....................... La caricature révolutionnaire / Antoine de Baecque p. 87

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