print
- Museum number
- 1918,0423.5
- Title
- Object: The Tuileries, 20th June 1792
- Description
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Interior in the Palais des Tuileries, Marie-Antoinette standing on the right, sheltering her cowering children around her, looking haughtily at the crowd of revolutionaries who have burst into the room, brandishing weapons, gathered behind a large table, one trying to speak to a young girl who stands facing the Queen, looking resigned; after Elmore; proof before title. 1883
Mixed media on chine collé
- Production date
- 1883
- Dimensions
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Height: 695 millimetres
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Width: 785 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1860 (no.153) and in 1989 was in the Makins Collections. See David Bindman, 'The Shadow of the Guillotine: Britain and the French Revolution', (London: British Museum Press, 1989), no.231, pp.214-5.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: French Revolution 1792
- Acquisition date
- 1918
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1918,0423.5