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Summary

Français : Le Lis Confessant La Violette (

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Artist

Unknown author

Title

Français : Le Lis Confessant La Violette

Description

English: Napoleon (known as Father Violet) is improbably confessing to Louis XVIII (often represented by the lily). Louis's confessional is labeled Father Tartuffe after the character in Molière's play who was himself a hypocritical imposter. The caricaturist is criticizing the selective forgiveness and punishment that Louis is meting out.

Published spring 1815 (per the catalog of the De Vinck collection), but a handwritten note on our drawing says 1814. Broadley #205.

Subjects (LCSH): Political cartoons; History--Caricatures & cartoons; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824

Date

1815

Medium

English: Etching, hand colored ; plate mark 25 x 35 cm. on sheet 28 x 39 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

126

Place of creation

Paris

Inscriptions

Caption on image :

Le Lis [lys] Confessant La Violette (The lily confessing the violet)

Dialogue and signage :
[Scroll held by Napoleon] Confession Generale Victoires Aboukir, Marengo, Ulm, Jena, Friedland, Austerlitz, Eylau, Wagram, Moscowa, Lutzen, Vurchen, Monmirail, Brienne, Champ-Aubert, etc. (General confessions...[followed by list of battles])
[Name on Confessional] Père Tartufe XVIII (Father Tartuffe the 18th)
[Sign under priest] Charte Constitutionnelle (Constitutional Charter)
Paper in the priest's hand] Penitence, Acte de Contrition,Penitence/Acte de Contrition/Proscrit jusqu'au pressant besoin (Punishment, Act of Contribution, prohibited until there's a pressing need)
[Scrolls coming out of hat in front of priest] Indulgence pour les traîtres, Pénitences pour les défenseurs de la patrie (Indulgence for traitors, punishments for defenders of the fatherland)
[Scroll held by soldier with wooden leg] Pénitence, 1er Acte d’Humilité, Éloigné de l’Hôtel (Punishment, First Act of Humility, Distance from the Hotel [de Ville])
[Scroll at that soldier's foot] Confession, La Vendée Pacifiée (Confession, the pacified Vendeen)
[Triangles covering women across top] Oublid Upassé

[Banners carried by women] Marengo, Jéna, Austerlitz, Wagram, Essli, Moscowa, Craonf, Fried, Lutzen, Briene, Monmirail (names of battles)

Source/Photographer

English: Napoleonic Period Collection

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