La Pompe Funebre du Clerge de France Decede a l'Assemblee Nationale, Le 2 Novembre 1789, a printed fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching of bishops and priests in a carriage being driven off by Death whilst Monks, Nuns and ladies weep, the verso with the text of the song, with wooden sticks with bone filets - 11in. (28cm.), 1789 (lacks small section of filet on lower guardstick)

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La Pompe Funebre du Clerge de France Decede a l'Assemblee Nationale, Le 2 Novembre 1789, a printed fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching of bishops and priests in a carriage being driven off by Death whilst Monks, Nuns and ladies weep, the verso with the text of the song, with wooden sticks with bone filets - 11in. (28cm.), 1789 (lacks small section of filet on lower guardstick)
See Colour Plate 3

Provenance

Duchet with three labels, sold Christie's South Kensington 26 May 1981, lot 142 illustrated on cover

Literature

Scott, op. cit. p. 36

Exhibited

Paris 1900, no. 162

Lot Essay

There are two other examples at the Musee Carnavalet Legs Francisque 1907 and the Musee de la Revolution francaise, Vizille Inv. MRF 1987-67

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