Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
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Isidore-Stanislas HELMAN engraver<br />
French 1743–1806<br />
Charles MONNET (after)<br />
The XIII Vendémiaire, Year IV<br />
(French Republican Calendar for<br />
5 October 1795), St-Roch Church,<br />
rue Honoré<br />
Journeé du XIII Vendemiaire, l’an IV.<br />
Église St-Roch, rue Honoré<br />
1795<br />
etching and engraving<br />
Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris, France<br />
Bequest, Amédée Berger, 1881 G 33311<br />
This popular engraving records the turning<br />
point in the career <strong>of</strong> the young Napoleon.<br />
In late 1795 the introduction <strong>of</strong> a new<br />
constitution by France’s post-Revolutionary<br />
rulers enraged royalist factions who<br />
organised an armed mob to attack the<br />
seat <strong>of</strong> government at the Tuileries Palace.<br />
Appointed to help defend the palace,<br />
Napoleon seized forty cannon from a<br />
nearby army barracks, positioning them at<br />
all approaches. The ensuing barrage was<br />
devastatingly effective, leaving hundreds <strong>of</strong><br />
rebels dead and wounded – but preventing<br />
further unrest and bloodshed.<br />
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This document remains the property <strong>of</strong> the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Victoria</strong> and must be returned upon request. Reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited without written authorisation.<br />
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