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Summary

English: Du Haut en Bas (

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Artist

Anonymous

Title

English: Du Haut en Bas

Description

English: ou les Causes et les Effets

This drawing attributes Napoleon's downfall to having created an empire too vast for his governing skills. He is shown taking an immense stride from Madrid, represented by a cluster of Gothic pinnacles, to Moscow, represented by the onion domes of the Kremlin. His stilts rest only on the spikes which project from pinnacles and domes. The stilts are breaking and he is about to fall. He has dropped his scepter and orb, he's looking down, and his hat is falling. Madrid and Moscow are divided by the ornamental water or canal leading from the waterfront of Fontainebleau, where Napoleon abdicated on April 6, 1814. Green hills lie between Madrid and Fontainebleau.

Napoleon’s fall is generally agreed to have been caused by his Spanish policy and the Moscow campaign. The design is adapted from the well-known French satire L’Enjambée Impériale, where Catherine strides triumphantly from Russia to Constantinople.

Reference source: Clerc #57; George #12241.
Clerc assigns a publication date of "after April 2, 1814.(# Also found in the De Vinck Collection (#8981) at the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris) and in the Collection de l'histoire de France, Qb1, April 20, 1814.

Subjects (LCSH): Political cartoons; History--Caricatures & cartoons; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821

Date

2 April 1814

Medium

English: Etching, hand colored ; plate mark 33 x 24 cm. on sheet 38 x 27 cm.

Collection

University of Washington

	Native name	University of Washington
	Location	Seattle, Washington, United States of America
	Coordinates	47° 39′ 15″ N, 122° 18′ 29″ W
	Established	1861
	Website	www.washington.edu
	Authority file	: Q219563 VIAF: 265500071 ISNI: 0000000122986657 ULAN: 500308857 LCCN: n79054596 NLA: 35573202 WorldCat

Current location

University of Washington: Special Collections

Accession number

132

Place of creation

Paris

Inscriptions

Caption on image :

Du haut en Bas...ou les Causes et les Effets (From high to low, or causes and effects)

Dialogue and signage :
Madrid
Fontainebleau
Moscou

Source/Photographer

English: Napoleonic Period Collection

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