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Français : Il Essuie de Grands Revers — ou Les Taches ineffaçables (The indelible stains)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
English: Charles Elie
Title
Français : Il Essuie de Grands Revers — ou Les Taches ineffaçables (The indelible stains)
Description
English:

The title of this caricature is a play on words: The verb essuyer, which means to wipe, has a secondary meaning of to suffer a loss or reproach. Thus the title can be translated "He wipes out his failures" or "He suffers some reversals."

In the drawing, Napoleon wipes with a sponge across a blood-stained list of lost battles and massacres held by a satanic creature. The stains do not wipe away. The pyramid in the background is labeled Kléber; a ghost with a dagger embedded in his neck and the word Vengeance on his robe reaches out from behind the pyramid.

When the Egyptian campaign failed in 1799, Napoleon returned to France, leaving General Kléber (1753-1800) in charge. Kléber won an important campaign against the Turks at Heliopolis, but was later assassinated by a religious fanatic. It was rumored at the time that Napoleon had ordered the assassination.

Reference source: Clerc #15

  • Geographic coverage: France
  • Subjects (LCSH): Political cartoons; History--Caricatures & cartoons; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Date circa 1814
date QS:P571,+1814-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: Etching, hand colored ; plate mark 24 x 14 cm. on sheet 28 x 20 cm.
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
85
Place of creation Paris
Inscriptions Caption on image:
Il Essuie de Grands Revers

ou les Taches ineffaçables

Signage:
[Pyramid] KLEBER
[Across ghost's robe] Vengeance
[Words on banner:] Danguin, Espagne, Moscou, Leipsic

[Il Essuie de Grands Revers (see translation comments above)

the indelible stains

Signage:
[Pyramid] KLEBER
[Across ghost's robe] Vengeance

[Words on banner:] Danguin, Spain, Moscow, Leipszig]
Source/Photographer
English: Napoleonic Period Collection
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Also found in the De Vinck Collection (#8826) at the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris) and Collection de l'histoire de France, Qb1, 1813.
Digital ID Number
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NAP010
UW Reference Number
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F6

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