A.A. Lejeune, active late 18th Century

A trompe l'oeil of assignats and other revolutionary papers

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A.A. Lejeune, active late 18th Century
A trompe l'oeil of assignats and other revolutionary papers
signed, inscribed and dated 'Dessiné et écrit à la plume, d'après les Originaux Par A.A. Lejeune, ce 8 Juillet 1796'
black chalk, pen and brown and black ink, bodycolor heightened with white
32 x 21½ in. (812 x 545 mm.)

拍品專文

The assignat was introduced in December 1789 by the National Assembly, originally as a bond yielding 5 interest per annum, with recently seized church properties serving as security. The assignat was turned into paper currency in September 1792 and the amount of assignats in circulation increased from 400 million to 1,200 million. The value of the assignat fell to such a low level that in 1796 (see lot 71) a new form af paper money, the mandats territoriaux, was created to replace the assignat at a rate of 1 to 30. As the value of that new paper money slumped, metallic currency was reintroduced on 4 December 1797.
The trompe-l'oeil also displays identity cards and a membership card for the Comité Révolutionnaire.