At the top of this city view there is the annotation: ‘La Bastille, dessinée d’apres nature par Moreau, jeune’. The draughtsman had a brilliant career as a designer of sets of prints at the court of Louis XVI. In 1781 he was appointed ‘draughtsman and engraver to the Royal Cabinet’, a prominent position. In this drawing he sketched the Bastille, the famous Parisian prison stronghold which became a symbol of repression during the monarchy. The storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 is seen as the start of the French Revolution.
Specifications
| Title | City View of Paris with the Bastille |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Black chalk, pen and black ink |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 181 mm Width 474 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Jean Michel Moreau
|
| Accession number | F I 225 (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1780-1789 |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Internal exhibitions |
De Collectie Twee - wissel VI, Prenten & Tekeningen (2010) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | France > Western Europe > Europe |
