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Félix Pyat

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Betbeder, Faustin (caricaturist)
Coulboeuf (printer)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Satirical print in which Félix Pyat, carrying a sack bearing the names of communard leaders, leaps into the 'Four à Brioche' (‘bread oven’) in which the Commune is baking. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.


Object details

Categories
Caricatures & Cartoons
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleFélix Pyat (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Félix Pyat'. Satirical illustration by Faustin Betbeder in which Félix Pyat, carrying a sack bearing the names of communard leaders, leaps into the 'Four à Brioche' (‘bread oven’). Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Satirical print in which Félix Pyat, carrying a sack bearing the names of communard leaders, leaps into the 'Four à Brioche' (‘bread oven’) in which the Commune is baking. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.
Dimensions
  • Height: 29.8cm
  • Width: 28.8cm
Dimensions from: Lambert, Susan. The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71. catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1971.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'FÉLIX PYAT' (Title, lettered above design)
  • 'Encore un Four!...' (Lettered below design)
  • 'La Commun [e] Four À Brioche / Flouren's Blanqui et Cie' (Lettered within design)
  • 'Imp. Coulboeuf. Paris' (Lettered below design)
  • 'Faustin' (Signed, bottom of design)
Gallery label
"Faustin" (pseudonym of Faustin Betbeder) (born 1847) Félix Pyat was the most obstreperous and the least effective of the members of the Commune. Despised by Delescluz for the fuzziness of his political ideas, he was always to be found at the centre of any squabble in the Hôtel de Ville and on several occasions petulantly handed in his resignation, which he later rescinded. Here carrying a sack bearing the names of other communard leaders he leaps into the 'Four à Brioche', (meaning equally a ‘bread oven’ or a ‘furnace of blunders’) in which the Commune is baking, exclaiming ‘Now for another cook-up …’ Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.1410-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Subjects depicted
Man
Bread Oven
Pyat, Félix
Bibliographic references
  • Lambert, Susan, The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71: catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, V&A, 1971
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1410-1962

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Record createdFebruary 11, 2009
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