Paris gardé par le peuple la nuit du 12 au 13 Juillet 1789 / Prieur, inv. & del. ; Berthault, sculp. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique engraving captures Paris gardé par le peuple la nuit du 12 au 13 Juillet 1789 / Prieur, inv. & del. ; Berthault, sculp. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Paris gardé par le peuple la nuit du 12 au 13 Juillet 1789 / Prieur, inv. & del. ; Berthault, sculp.
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On the night of 12 to 13 July 1789, Parisians without any official orders organized their own watch over the city, a scene this engraving sets out in its title: *Paris gardé par le peuple*. The city was tense after King Louis XVI dismissed the popular finance minister Jacques Necker, and residents formed citizen patrols and militia units that gathered arms and guarded neighborhoods. Dominique Vivant Denon-era painter Prieur drew the composition, and Berthault engraved it for the *Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française*, published in Paris in 1804. Its place as plate 11 in that series shows how Revolutionary events were turned into a visual record within about fifteen years.
| Created / published | 1804 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving (plate no. 11) published in Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution francaise. Paris : chez Auber, 1804. DC148.C69 (Rare Book Collection). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,342 × 1,167 px · prints to 4 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173737 |
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