PrintsFrench18th century

Liberty, Armed with the Scepter of Reason, Strikes Down Ignorance and Fanaticism

1793

Artists

Jean-Baptiste ChapuyArtist

Simon Louis BoizotArtist after

Gamble et CoipelPublisher

Classification

Prints

Technique

Mezzotint

Medium

Mezzotint on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

Image: 34.5 × 51 cm (13 9/16 × 20 1/16 in.) Plate: 44.7 × 58.6 cm (17 5/8 × 23 1/16 in.) Sheet: 48.1 × 65.8 cm (18 15/16 × 25 7/8 in.)

Provenance

[Galerie Terrades, Paris, 2012], to; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, 2012.

Related Artworks

Cecil Buller, 20th century

20th centuryCanadian

Prints

Roxane

Alexis François Girard, 19th century

19th centuryFrench

Prints

Kirby Lonsdale Churchyard

Charles Heath, 1822

19th centuryBritish

Prints

Bride Riding in Palanquin (Koshi-iri), Number 3 from the series Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman (Konrei nishiki misao-guruma)

Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信, Edo period, circa 1769 (Meiwa 6)

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

18th centuryJapanese

Prints

James A. McN. Whistler

Paul César Helleu, 1897

19th centuryFrench

Prints

Office Unit and Factory Building, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1944-1946: First floor plan (1/16" =1'-0")

Walter Gropius, 1944-1946

Chromolithograph on off-white card

19th centuryAmerican

Prints

Cicho Sgarra and Collo Francisco

Jacques Callot, 17th century

17th centuryFrench

Prints

Ariel (Bas-relief)

H. C. Balding, 19th century

19th centuryBritish

Prints

Tonbandgerät und Stehlampe, from the portfolio Marksgrafik 1972

Brigitte Reinert, 1972

Offset lithograph

20th centuryGerman

Prints

My Sweet Homeland, What Has Become of You?

Georges Rouault, 1922

Etching and aquatint over heliogravure

20th centuryFrench