ID: 700001498 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001498	Record Type: Movable Work

Convoi de très haut et très puissant seigneur des abus mort sous le règne de Louis XVI le 4 mai 1789 (etching (print); unknown arist; published by Chez Sergent 1789. ; Published: ca. 1789; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2690-784; 690784; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.15,f.3))

Note: The print is a variant of the one issued by Sergent and censored during Spring 1789: Convoi de tres haut et tres puissant seigneur des abus, mort sous le règne de Louis XVI le 27 avril 1789 (A Paris : Chez Sergent ..., [1789]); Key in the lower margin to the figures in the procession, lettered A to M; The allegorical print on the abuses and the decadence of the Ancien Régime is represented by a funeral procession of the "Lord of Abuses" who is said to have died on May 4, 1789, the eve of the opening of the Estates General at Versailles; On the left, the nobility and the clergy proceed through a ruined edifice and a deserted landscape, headed by finance minister Jacques Necker. On the right, victims of the Lord of Abuses, Rousseau, Latude, Sirven, Joan of Arc, Calas, Salmon, and Monbailly, stand near trophies of music and the arts; Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*); Watermark: lettering. Publication: [ca. 1789].

Titles:

Convoi de très haut et très puissant seigneur des abus mort sous le règne de Louis XVI le 4 mai 1789 (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,,)

Allegorical print on the abuses and the decadence of the Ancien Régime (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Convoi de très haut et très puissant seigneur des abus mort sous le règne de Louis XVI le 4 mai 1789; [graphic]. (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. 1789

Creator Display:

unknown arist; published by Chez Sergent 1789. [preferred,VP]

Unknown People by Culture (ULAN facet) [500125081]

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: 2690-784; 690784; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.15,f.3)

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

	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)

	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>)

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

Dimensions: plate mark 28 x 40.2 cm, on sheet 32 x 44 cm

General Subject:

allegory (preferred)

history and legend

Specific Subjects:

	despotism [300055515]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), social science concepts, political concepts, <political ideologies and attitudes>) (AAT)

	Calas, Jean (French merchant, 1698-1762) [500354273]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

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

	funerals [300069162]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, ceremonies, cultural ceremonies, rites of passage) (AAT)

	Furies [901000235]
	.....((Roman characters, Roman iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Estates-General (French representative assembly, active until 1789) [500354278]
	.....(Corporate Bodies) (ULAN)

	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)

	history (literary genre) [300026358]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for literature>) (AAT)

	Joan, of Arc, Saint (French saint and heroine, 1412-1431) [500343198]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Latude, Jean Henri (French writer, 1725-1805) [500354275]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Necker, Jacques (French government official, 1732-1804) [500354260]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (French philosopher and author, 1712-1778) [500250225]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Salmon, Marie-Françoise-Victoire (French servant, born 1760) [500354276]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Sirven, Pierre-Paul (French surveyor, 1709-1777) [500354277]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

Provenance: lfell; Purchase.

Watermarks: lettering

Inscriptions: Convoi de très haut et très puissant seigneur des abus mort sous le règne de Louis XVI le 4 mai 1789

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Convoi de très haut et très puissant seigneur des abus mort sous le règne de Louis XVI le 4 mai 1789	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 690784
Allegorical print on the abuses and the decadence of the Ancien Régime	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Convoi de très haut et très puissant seigneur des abus mort sous le règne de Louis XVI le 4 mai 1789; [graphic].	........ [GRISC]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

....................... Bruel, L'estampe, 1770-1871 : Collection de Vinck (1909-1979) 2765 (?)

....................... La caricature révolutionnaire / André Blum no. 1

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