print
- Museum number
- 1861,1012.119
- Title
- Object: Abiti dei Rappresentanti del Popolo Francese
- Description
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Nineteen individual figures, within octagons, showing the costumes of various French officials from the Directory (1795-1799), surrounding a depiction of the chamber of the Council of Elders (not, as stated by the title, the Council of the Five Hundred)
Etching
- Production date
- 1795-1799
- Dimensions
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Height: 381 millimetres (trimmed within plate-mark)
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Width: 313 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Presumably a copy after French print(s).
This is the Salle de la Convention at the Tuileries Palace, where the Council of Elders sat, not the Salle du Manège or the Palais Bourbon where the Conseil des Cinq-Cent met.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: French Directory 1795-1799
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,1012.119
