ID: 700001611 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001611	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Il faut danser (soft-ground etching (visual work); unknown French (etcher); Published: ca. 1797; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2717-028; 717028; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.10,f.4))

Note: Following the treaty of Leoben between Napoleon and Austria, the last doge of Venice was deposed on May 12, 1797, and Venice was later handed over to Austria; Commedia dell'arte figures dance around a pole topped by a liberty cap in the presence of French soldiers. A winged lion, the attribute of St. Mark and Venice, has fallen on his back; Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*). Publication: [1797?] (34501/publishers).

Titles:

Il faut danser (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,,)

Allegory of the fall of the doge of Venice in 1797, with commedia dell'arte figures (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Il faut danser; [graphic]. (C,U,undetermined,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

soft-ground etching (visual work) [300041376] (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, etchings (prints))

engravings (prints) [300041340]

..... (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. 1797

Creator Display:

unknown French (etcher) [preferred,VP]

etcher unknown French (French cultural designation) [500125235]

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: 2717-028; 717028; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.10,f.4)

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: soft-ground etching, engraving, red-brown ink

	soft-ground etching (process) [300053251]
	.......(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, etching (printing process))

	engraving (printing process) [300053225]
	.......(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)

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

Dimensions: sheet 30.4 x 37.7 cm

General Subject:

allegory (preferred)

events

Specific Subjects:

	actors (performing artists) [300025658]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in the arts and related occupations>, <people in the arts>, <people in the performing arts>, performing artists) (AAT)

	commedia dell'arte [300055912]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, comedy (general genre)) (AAT)

	Venezia [7003006]
	.....() (TGN)

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

Provenance: lfell; Purchase.

Inscriptions: Il faut danser

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Il faut danser	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 717028
Allegory of the fall of the doge of Venice in 1797, with commedia dell'arte figures	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Il faut danser; [graphic].	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

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