Title Information
Title
Cri de Paris
Name
Name Part
Beaublé
Name Part: Date
active 1773-1814
Role
Role Term: Text
publisher
Origin Information
Place
Place Term: Text
Paris
Place Term: Code
fr
Date Created
1815
Physical Description
Extent
1 print; 23.3 x 33 cm
Abstract
Napoleon is lampooned as a clown resembling harlequin-type figures. Shown in profile, the size of his stomach and head are exaggerated, while is arms and legs are shortened. The uniform he wears is equally ridiculous. His coat is decorated with medals and several sashes, to which are tied other medals and emblems of power. He runs from the center of this image to the left side. A retreat is indicated by his bent sword and the uniform hat that lies on the ground; yet the action remains unclear and ambiguous. A woman who stands at the left of the image points to the French fort in the left distance. She wears simple clothing--a head scarf and wooden shoes--and carries a bucket full of water. Two pendants, a heart and a cross, dangle from a gold chain on her neck. A blade is attached to a cord tied around her waist. As she points she yells "Cerneaux! ... Cerneaux! ..." In the left distance, a fortified wall surrounds a group of Italianate buildings. At the top of one of these a man stands to look across the plain through a telescope. He watches military action--two groups appear to be clashing--that occurs on the plane that separates his camp from the settlement on the right. On the other side of the plain there is a bluff topped by windmills.
Note
British Museum catalog describes the scene as General Hulin [not Napoleon] fleeing Paris.
Note: Text (displayLabel="Dialogue", lang="French")
Soldier with telescope (l.): "Quel - est ce fuyard?"
Note: Text (displayLabel="Dialogue", lang="French")
Woman with bucket (r.): "Cerneaux! ... Cerneaux! ..."
Note: Text (displayLabel="Inscription", lang="French")
Se trouve chez Beaublé, Quai des Augustins, No. 47 à Paris.
Note: Text (displayLabel="Inscription", lang="French")
Déposé à la Direction Gén'le.
Subject
Name: Personal
Name Part
Napoleon
Name Part: Terms of Address
I, Emperor of the French
Name Part: Date
1769-1821
Topic
Caricatures and cartoons
Subject
Name: Personal
Name Part
Hulin, Pierre Augustin
Name Part: Date
1758-1841
Topic
Caricatures and cartoons
Related Item: Host (displayLabel="Collection:")
Title Information
Title
Napoleonic Satires
Identifier: COLID
2
Identifier: URI
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/napoleon
Identifier: Local (displayLabel="ASKB Call No.:")
FrBH 1814 mf-4
Location
Physical Location
John Hay Library
Identifier: METSID
1130264087503802
Type of Resource
still image
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No Copyright - United States
Access Condition: restriction on access
Collection is open for research.