Nivôse (21 december – 20 januari), Salvatore Tresca, after Louis Lafitte, 1792 - 1794

Title(s)

Nivôse (21 december – 20 januari)
De Twaalf Maanden van de Franse Republikeinse Kalender (series title)
Les Mois républicains (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2017-6023-4

Catalogue reference

• LeBlanc 16

Inscriptions / marks

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

Description

Personificatie van Nivôse of Sneeuwmaand (Steenbok, 21 december – 20 januari) als een zittende vrouw met spinrokken die zich warmt bij een kachel.

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 348 mm × width 268 mm

What

• December; 'Decembre' (Ripa)
• January; 'Gennaro' (Ripa)
• Capricorn (zodiacal sign of December)
• spindle
• warming oneself at a fire (or hearth, stove, fire-pan, brazier)

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. 16
• 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.