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La Chiquenaude du Peuple (The People's Flick of the Finger)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Anonymous

After: Philippe-Auguste Hennequin
Title
La Chiquenaude du Peuple (The People's Flick of the Finger)
Description
English: Satire on 18 Fructidor: French people represented by giant figure of Hercules, flicking his finger at the tiny parasitic counter-revolutionary figures on his arm (clergy and nobility); with Victory standing beside him, holding two laurel garlands aloft. September 1797
Etching and aquatint, printed in brown ink
Depicted people Representation of: Herakles/Hercules
Date 1799-1800 (circa)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 426 millimetres
Width: 306 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
2002,0224.15
Notes

See exhibition catalogue, 'French Caricature of the French Revolution, 1789-1799', 1 November - 18 December, 1988, Grunwald Art Center for the Graphic Arts, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, no. 162. This print celebrates the triumph of the Revolution (or the People) over the forces of counter-revolution (as revealed by the symbols and clothes of those attacking it). The identification of the People with Hercules was of long-standing, and here he is crowned by victory. The event alluded to is the purge of September 1797 when the royalist members were expelled from the Directoire, and firm measures taken against the returned émigrés. Although the artist is anonymous, the very high quality shows that he must have been one of the better draughtsmen of the day. In 'L'Art de l'Estampe et la Révolution Française', Musée Carnavalet 1977, cat.276, it is suggested that it might be the work of Hennequin: he is listed as its designer in the monograph on the artist.

Lit.: J. Benoit, 'Philippe-Auguste Hennequin, 1762-1833', Paris, 1994,no. G12, pp. 233-4
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2002-0224-15
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