Victor Hugo (1802-1885). "Justitia". Graphite pencil, feather, brush, brown ink and wash, black ink wash, charcoal, red gouache raises, rserves, friction zones on beige paper. 1857. "Justitia" transcribes verses at the end of the poem "La Revolution", which will be published in the four winds of the mind but whose editorial staff is traditionally placed between October and Christmas 1857. In the last section, "the arrival" , the equestrian statues of Henri IV, Louis XIII and Louis XIV reach the Place de la Concorde where, instead of finding the statue of Louis XV which previously gave him his
Victor Hugo (1802-1885). "Justitia". Graphite pencil, feather, brush, brown ink and wash, black ink wash, charcoal, red gouache raises, rserves, friction zones on beige paper. 1857. "Justitia" transcribes verses at the end of the poem "La Revolution", which will be published in the four winds of the mind but whose editorial staff is traditionally placed between October and Christmas 1857. In the last section, "the arrival" , the equestrian statues of Henri IV, Louis XIII and Louis XIV reach the Place de la Concorde where, instead of finding the statue of Louis XV which previously gave him his name, they discover the scaffold of Louis XVI " Place of the statue, to the point where their eyes / sought the beloved triumphant and joyful, / appeared, hideous and standing in the void, / two black posts carrying a livid triangle; / The triangle hung, naked, in depth; / Lower we distinguished a round vague, / kind of skylight open to shade; / Two clouds traced at the bottom of the heavens this number /-Quatreving-Treize-Chiffre we do not know where they came from. / […] / It was not known what unknown scaffold. / […] / The scaffold, motionless and monstrous, seemed / communicated with the universal tomb. / A purple, similar to that which runs / and smokes along the wall of slaughterhouses, / Filled in such a way between the black cobblestones / that she wrote this mysterious justice word. »» Graphite pencil, brown ink, black ink, charcoal, justitia, wash, beige paper, brush, red gouache raises, frotted area, feather
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