Thermidor (19 juli – 17 augustus), Salvatore Tresca, after Louis Lafitte, 1792 - 1794

Title(s)

Thermidor (19 juli – 17 augustus)
De Twaalf Maanden van de Franse Republikeinse Kalender (series title)
Les Mois républicains (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2017-6023-11

Catalogue reference

• LeBlanc 23

Inscriptions / marks

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

Description

Personificatie van Thermidor, of Warmtemaand (Leeuw, 19 juli – 17 augustus) als badende vrouw met een zwaan bij haar borst.

Artist

• print maker: Salvatore Tresca (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Louis Lafitte (mentioned on object)

Place

Paris

Dating

1792 - 1794

Material

• paper

Technique

stipple engraving / etching / engraving

Measurements

height 351 mm × width 271 mm

What

• Leo (zodiacal sign of July)
• July; 'Luglio' (Ripa)
• August; 'Agosto' (Ripa)
• public baths - AA - in the open air
• Jupiter, in the shape of a swan, and Leda

Credit line

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

Acquisition

purchase 15-Jun-2017

Copyright

Public domain

• Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant un dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, Ch Leblanc, dl. 4, p. 54, cat.nr. 23
• Acquisitions, p. 409-413
• Matthew Shaw, Time and the French Revolution: the Republic Calendar 1789-Year XIV, Woodbridge/Rochester 2011, pp. 70-71.
• Manon van der Mullen, 'Acquisitions Prints and Drawings c. 1800', in: Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, vol. 65, nr. 4 (2017), p. 409-413, nr. 7.