Desmoulins – Antique Wall Art
![Desmoulins, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/52/5231d414f7ce-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This rare antique engraving captures Desmoulins in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Desmoulins
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The caption card names the sitter as Desmoulins, and the tentative identification as Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794) is worth keeping in view, since the record still carries a question mark on the name. If it is him, the portrait shows a figure from the early years of the French Revolution. Desmoulins was a lawyer turned pamphleteer whose speeches and newspapers helped rouse Parisian crowds in 1789. He later fell out with the Terror's leaders and was executed in 1794, alongside his close ally Georges Danton. The engraving's undated state makes it hard to say when it was made, so viewers should treat the sitter's identity and the print's date as open questions.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by Emile Giroux. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P I.; BI; Publ. Ind.; Shelf. Sources checked: LC/NA; LC/MUMS. ?Desmoulins, Camille, 1760-1794. Check BF. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 896 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172272 |
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