The Public Promenade
- Date
- 1792
- Material
- Etching, engraving, and aquatint
- made in
- Paris, Île-de-France region, France, Europe
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- plate: 18 x 25 in. (45.7 x 63.5 cm)
sheet: 19 x 25 5/8 in. (48.3 x 65.1 cm) - Credit Line
- The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund and funds given by Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Brauer and Mr. and Mrs. William R. Orthwein through the Art Enrichment Fund
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 70:2004
NOTES
Philibert-Louis Debucourt was especially known for his innovations in color printing. This print depicts the Parisian elite in the gardens of the Palais Royal. It stands as a wonderful, if prophetic, depiction of the French aristocracy, created only months before the massacres of September 1792. The pink-clad figure sprawling across chairs is the Duke d'Aumount, while the future Louis XVIII (right of center) is blowing a kiss at an admiring friend. The broken and strewn chairs are emblematic of the current regime, ready to collapse at any moment.
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