EditorialHead of a Guillotined Man. Jean Louis Andr? Th?odore G?ricault; French, 1791-1824. Date: 1818. Dimensions: 16 1/8 ? 14 15/16 in. (41 ? 38 cm). Oil on panel. Origin: France.
EditorialAsia from a set of The Four Continents, designed ca. 1786, woven 1790?91, French, Beauvais, Wool, silk (19-21 warps per inch, 8 per cm.), 144 ? 198 in. (365.8 ? 502.9 cm), Textiles-Tapestries, This suite of four remarkable tapestries with coordinating ...
EditorialEurope from a set of The Four Continents, designed ca. 1786, woven 1790?91, French, Beauvais, Wool, silk (19-21 warps per inch, 8 per cm.), H. 144 x W. 180 inches (365.8 x 457.2 cm), Textiles-Tapestries, This suite of four remarkable tapestries with co...
EditorialFRENCH REVOLUTION. An execution by guillotine. Sister Teresa on the scaffold to be guillotined in 1790. Colored engraving from "L'Illustration", 1901.
EditorialHead of a Guillotined Man. Jean Louis Andr? Th?odore G?ricault; French, 1791-1824. Date: 1818. Dimensions: 16 1/8 ? 14 15/16 in. (41 ? 38 cm). Oil on panel. Origin: France.
EditorialLouis Pierre Manuel, writer, Prucurer to the Commune of Paris, guillotined 1793. Vignette shows Manuel attacked by a group of Jacobins. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Portraits des Personnages ...
EditorialMarie-Jean Herault de Sechelles (1759-1794), French judge and politician guillotined in the Reign of Terror. Vignette shows the insurrection of May 31, 1793. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Port...
EditorialJean-Baptiste Carrier, Deputy of the Department of Cantal at the National Convention, guillotined 1794. Vignette shows the Drownings at Nantes, Noyades de Nantes, 1793. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete...
EditorialAntoine Quentin Fouquier-Tainville, Public Prosecutor, Revolutionary Tribunal, guillotined 1795. Vignette shows him appearing before the judges. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux from his Collection Complete de 60 Portraits des Per...
EditorialHead of a Guillotined Man. Jean Louis Andr? Th?odore G?ricault; French, 1791-1824. Date: 1818. Dimensions: 16 1/8 ? 14 15/16 in. (41 ? 38 cm). Oil on panel. Origin: France.
EditorialHead of a Guillotined Man. Jean Louis Andr? Th?odore G?ricault; French, 1791-1824. Date: 1818. Dimensions: 16 1/8 ? 14 15/16 in. (41 ? 38 cm). Oil on panel. Origin: France.
EditorialHead of a Guillotined Man. Jean Louis Andr? Th?odore G?ricault; French, 1791-1824. Date: 1818. Dimensions: 16 1/8 ? 14 15/16 in. (41 ? 38 cm). Oil on panel. Origin: France.
EditorialAfrica from a set of The Four Continents, designed ca. 1786, woven 1790?91, French, Beauvais, Wool, silk (19-21 warps per inch, 8 per cm.), H. 144 x W. 180 inches (365.8 x 457.2 cm), Textiles-Tapestries, This suite of four remarkable tapestries with co...
EditorialAsia from a set of The Four Continents, designed ca. 1786, woven 1790?91, French, Beauvais, Wool, silk (19-21 warps per inch, 8 per cm.), 144 ? 198 in. (365.8 ? 502.9 cm), Textiles-Tapestries, This suite of four remarkable tapestries with coordinating ...
EditorialEurope from a set of The Four Continents, designed ca. 1786, woven 1790?91, French, Beauvais, Wool, silk (19-21 warps per inch, 8 per cm.), H. 144 x W. 180 inches (365.8 x 457.2 cm), Textiles-Tapestries, This suite of four remarkable tapestries with co...
EditorialSevered head, said to be that of Maximilien-Fran?ois-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), guillotined July 28, 1794 (10 Thermidor, An II), 1794, Graphite, 6 7/16 x 4 7/16 in. (16.3 x 11.3 cm.), Drawings, baron Dominique Vivant Denon (French, Givry...
EditorialFRENCH REVOLUTION. An execution by guillotine. Sister Teresa on the scaffold to be guillotined in 1790. Colored engraving from "L'Illustration", 1901.