Supplice de Louis XVI, Place de la Révolution, le 21 Janvier 1793; ou 1er Pluviôse An 1er de la République / Swebach Desfontaines inv. & del. ; Berthault sculps.
Summary
Print shows French soldiers, some on horseback, and citizens gathered around the platform where Louis XVI stands before the guillotine on the day of his execution.
Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Auber, 1804, no. 78.
Gift; Joseph Verner Reed; 1955 July 22.
Tags
Date
01/01/1804
Contributors
Berthault, Pierre Gabriel, 1748-1819, etcher
Swebach de Fontaine, Jacques François Joseph, 1769-1823, artist
Location
Montparnasse (Paris, France), 48.84306, 2.32139
Source
Library of Congress
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