{"product_id":"fouquier-tinville-public-prosecutor-terror-french-revolution-aquatint-framed","title":"Fouquier Tinville Public Prosecutor Terror French Revolution Aquatint Framed","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original French Revolution portrait of \u003cstrong\u003eFouquier-Tinville\u003c\/strong\u003e, the portrait roundel engraved in aquatint by Levachez and the narrative vignette beneath designed and etched by Duplessi-Bertaux, dated in the plate \u003cstrong\u003el'An 7 de la Rép.\u003c\/strong\u003e (1798-99).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lettering reads \u003cstrong\u003eFOUQUIER-TAINVILLE, NÉ À HÉROUAN, DÉPT DE L'AISNE, EN 1747. ACCUSATEUR PUBLIC AU TRIBUNAL RÉVOLRE. Jugé à mort le 17 floréal, et décapité le 18, l'an 3\u003c\/strong\u003e. The vignette shows the crowded courtroom of the Revolutionary Tribunal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville was public prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal during the Terror, sending Marie-Antoinette, the Girondins and Danton to the guillotine. After Thermidor he was tried himself and executed in 1795.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plate comes from the celebrated series of revolutionary portraits issued with the \u003cem\u003eTableaux historiques de la Révolution française\u003c\/em\u003e in Paris. Each plate follows the same format: a finely worked aquatint portrait by \u003cstrong\u003eCharles-François-Gabriel Levachez\u003c\/strong\u003e in a circular medallion, above an etched vignette by \u003cstrong\u003eJean Duplessi-Bertaux\u003c\/strong\u003e showing a defining moment in the sitter's life, with the lettering beneath. The portraits were issued in instalments from the late 1790s and added to the \u003cem\u003eTableaux historiques\u003c\/em\u003e in its 1802 edition; impressions are held by the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFraming and provenance:\u003c\/strong\u003e in an ebonised reeded frame, one of a group of matching frames bearing the trade label of \u003cstrong\u003eSamuel Jennings, Carver, Gilder \u0026amp; Printseller\u003c\/strong\u003e, 16 Duke Street, Manchester Square, London, where the National Portrait Gallery records him from 1850 to 1885.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e age-toning and foxing to the paper consistent with age, with foxing to the lower margin; please see all photographs, which form part of the description. Frame with wear commensurate with age. Hanging wire to the reverse. Not examined out of the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 28 x 22.5 cm framed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarefully packed and posted. Please ask if you would like any further photographs or measurements.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Moffitts Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54613039251740,"sku":null,"price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/4630\/0188\/files\/57_94760715-9930-4dfb-8916-174d6e3270c2.jpg?v=1790407148","url":"https:\/\/moffitts.co.uk\/products\/fouquier-tinville-public-prosecutor-terror-french-revolution-aquatint-framed","provider":"Moffitts Antiques","version":"1.0","type":"link"}