Description: RARE French satirical caricature.This is a museum quality piece. In fact when googled most of the listings are from museums.The translated description below come from Paris' Museum de la Ville website (with online translation) Bastard Foetus Hérédité. 1831 French Lithograph by Eugene Hippolyte Forest. (French 1808-1891)lithograph by Victor Delaporteapprox 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 ins Bâstard Fœtus Hérédité Comte d’Avorton Mort-Né bon fils, bon Pair, Trépassé en son Castel du Luxembourg e 10 8br au soir de l’année 1831 Requiescat in pace in saecula / saecularum / Amen / E.F… Chez / Aubert / éditeur / Galerie / Véro Dodat [éditeur] Lith de Delaporte / rue de l’Abbaye //n°4 analysis: pl. celebrates the perpetual abolition of the hereditary peerage, by a large majority of 324 votes against 26 in the Chamber of Deputies, October 10, 1831. Pl. represents, in a frame with scalloped corners, a skeleton (a peer), in profile, wearing a blue and white striped hat with a multicolored plume, and dressed in an embroidered green cape. He holds a stick from the end of which hangs a small fleur-de-lis. Top to left is a coat of arms (presenting a helmet, jaws, a mummy): this is the coat of arms present on a burial stone found under the Luxembourg Palace (find imagined by La Caricature). It is therefore that of a peer from France. Celebration of the death of a peer in his Luxembourg palace which was the seat of the Chamber of Peers. insured economy mail within the US
Price: 499.99 USD
Location: Van Nuys, California
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Type: Print
Artist: Eugene Hippolyte Forest.
Year of Production: 1831
Theme: Art, Politics, Royalty, satire, historical
Material: Paper
Production Technique: Lithography
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Subject: Cartoons & Caricatures, art
