Frimaire (21 november - 20 december), Salvatore Tresca, after Louis Lafitte, 1792 - 1794

Title(s)

Frimaire (21 november - 20 december)
De Twaalf Maanden van de Franse Republikeinse Kalender (series title)
Les Mois républicains (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2017-6023-3

Catalogue reference

• LeBlanc 15

Inscriptions / marks

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

Description

Personificatie van Frimaire of Rijpmaand (Boogschutter, 21 november - 20 december) als jagende vrouw met boog en hond, een pijl pakkend uit haar pijlenkoker.

Artist

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

Place

Paris

Dating

1792 - 1794

Material

• paper

Technique

stipple engraving / engraving / etching

Measurements

height 349 mm × width 268 mm

What

• Sagittarius (zodiacal sign of November)
• November; 'Novembre' (Ripa)
• December; 'Decembre' (Ripa)
• hunting, chase
• archer's weapons: bow and arrow

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. 15
• 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.