File:La Place Victoire à Paris (BM 1937,1018.1).jpg

English: An arc of the symmetrical houses of the Place des Victoires (built by Mansard in 1686) forms a background to an animated scene, the principal group being round the statue (burlesqued) of 'Louis le Grand'. A charming lady walks (right ot left) with her hand on the arm of a grim abbe, whose hands are in a muff. A two-wheeled chair is pulled by one man and pushed by two others; its occupant, a lean Frenchman, looks up ecstatically at the statue. A stout English tourist wearing jack-boots and a lady in a riding-habit watch the scene, amused. Their mastiff looks threateningly at a slim greyhound. Beside them stands a bare-footed monk. In the middle distance (right) three monks, the leader holding a crucifix, file past a coach at the back of which four footmen stand, one behind the other; the occupants, a lady and gentleman, face each other in animated conversation. In the foreground (left), beside the overturned stool of a 'dècrotteur', a grotesque mannikin fiddles to a dancing dog. The towers and roof of Notre Dame are seen above the houses in the background, a topographical impossibility. November 1789
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint