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ID: 700001512
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001512
Record Type: Movable Work
Cupidon, tambour major national (etching (print); published by Chez Driancourt, imprimeur en taille douce rue ...; Published: ca. 1790; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2691-734; 691734; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.17,f.6))
Note: The print is a satire on the Festival of Federation celebrated on July 14, 1790; Cupid crowns King Louis XVI, standing on a pedestal adorned with firearms and holding a pike topped with a liberty cap. A scrolls reads: "Vive la Nation, la Loi et le Roi." Inscriptions below the image include verses of the revolutionary song: "Ça ira, ça ira."; Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*).
Titles:
Cupidon, tambour major national (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,,)
Satire on the Festival of Federation with Cupid crowning King Louis XVI (C,U,DE,English-P,U,U)
Vive la nation la loi et le roi (C,U,undetermined,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. 1790

Creator Display:
published by Chez Driancourt, imprimeur en taille douce rue du foin St. Jacques, no. 6 [preferred,GRISC]
publishers Driancourt (French publisher, active 18th century) [500354492]
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: 2691-734; 691734; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.17,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] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Display Materials: 1 print: etching, b&w
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>)
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)
black-and-white (colors) [300265434]
.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name), colors (hues or tints), neutrals (colors))

Dimensions: plate mark 24 x 30.3 cm., on sheet 25 x 35.8 cm
General Subject:
events (preferred)
satire

Specific Subjects:
festivals (celebrations) [300073472]
.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, celebrations) (AAT)
Ça ira [901000948]
.....((Literary works: Musical, Choreographic works, Named written and performed works, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)
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)
depictions (visual works) [300248231]
.....(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)

Provenance: Unidentified collector's mark on recto: MD within oval; lfell; Purchase.
Inscriptions: Cupidon, tambour major national
Marks: collector's
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
Sources and Contributors:
Cupidon, tambour major national........ [GRISC,VP]
........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 691734
Satire on the Festival of Federation with Cupid crowning King Louis XVI........ [VP]
........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Vive la nation la loi et le roi........ [GRISC]
........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]
....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
....................... Hennin 10780
Note:
English ..... [GRISC]
..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
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