Vrijheid, Auguste Paul Charles Anastasi, after Pierre Prud'hon, 1849

Title(s)

Vrijheid
Elle a terrassé l'hydre de la tyrannie/ et brisé le joug du despotisme (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1970-236

Catalogue reference

• IFF après 1800

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Description

Vrijheid heeft de hydra van de tirannie verslagen en het juk van despotisme gebroken.

Artist

• print maker: Auguste Paul Charles Anastasi (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Pierre Prud'hon (mentioned on object)
• printer: Victor Jacques Bertauts (mentioned on object)

Place

Paris

Dating

1849

Material

• paper

Technique

lithography

Measurements

height 311 mm × width 236 mm

What

• Freedom, Liberty; 'Libertà' (Ripa)
• Libertas as Roman personification
• yoke
• attributes of Hercules (with NAME)
• 'hydra'; 'Hidra' (Ripa)
• dictatorial government, tyranny; 'Tirannide' (Ripa)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1970

Copyright

Public domain

• Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, dl. 1, p. 124
• Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé de P.P. Prud'hon, p. 158, cat.nr. 70
• Keuze uit de aanwinsten 1970 van het Rijksprentenkabinet