03 — ARTWORK
Caricature of Léon Gambetta
- MEDIUM
- Hand-coloured engraving, 457 x 305 mm
- TYPE
- Other
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
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This engravingA print made from a metal plate that has had a design cut into it with a sharp point. Ink is smeared over the plate and then wiped off, the ink remaining in the etched lines being transferred when the plate is pressed very firmly onto a sheet of paper. was published as the cover of L'Eclipse on 17 April 1870. It is a caricature of Léon Gambetta (1838-1882), a French lawyer and republican politician who proclaimed and played a prominent role in the French Third Republic.
On 2 September 1870, the French Army suffered a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Sedan, in which the emperor Napoleon III surrendered and was taken prisoner. The news arrived in Paris on the night of 3 September, and early on 4 September large-scale protests began in the capitalThe head or crowning feature of a column or pillar. Structurally, capitals broaden the area of a column so that it can more easily bear the weight of the arch or entablature it supports.. Parisians broke into the Palais Bourbon, meeting place of the Chamber of Deputies, interrupting a session and calling for a Republic. Later that day, from the Hôtel de Ville, Gambetta proclaimed the French Republic to a large crowd gathered in the Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Caricature of Léon Gambetta by GILL, André},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-09},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gill-andr-r6e65a6f39ced87/caricature-of-lon-gambetta-r3c3d7206d47008},
urldate = {2026-09-09},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-09. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
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