Caricature of Georges-Auguste Couthon (called Aristide, 1756-1794), President of the Convention in 1793, on the way to the guillotine on July 28, 1794 (10 Thermidor, An II)

Caricature of Georges-Auguste Couthon (called Aristide, 1756-1794), President of the Convention in 1793, on the way to the guillotine on July 28, 1794 (10 Thermidor, An II) by baron Dominique Vivant Denon

Medium

Pen, black ink over black chalk

Dimensions

5 3/16 x 4 1/16 in. (13.1 x 10.3 cm) Including added strip 1/2 in. on top.

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1962

Accession Number

62.119.6b

Tags

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About the Artist

baron Dominique Vivant Denon · 17471825

Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747–1825), was a multifaceted French artist, diplomat, and archaeologist whose life bridged the Ancien Régime, Revolution, and Napoleonic Empire. Born on January 4, 1747, in Givry near Chalon-sur-Saône to a family of minor nobility originally surnamed "de Non," he was sent to Paris at eighteen to study law. Instead, he pursued art, studying painting under Noël Hallé...

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