Farewell Jean Calas in prison Les adieux the Calas, a sa famille (title object) Goodbye to Jean Calas in the captured isles adieux the Calas, a sa famille (title object) Object Type: picture Object number: : Bauer 50Engelmann 48 (Zweite Platte) -2 ( 2) Number of states known-2 (6) Note: Notes Engelmann library Rijksmuseum. Inscriptions / Brands: collector's mark, verso, stamped: Lugt 2228opschrift, verso, written in pencil: "48a Epr. RARISSIME avec l'année 1767, changee plus tard / and 1768. Très curieux et aux enconnue Biographes / rarité, si non unique
Farewell Jean Calas in prison Les adieux the Calas, a sa famille (title object) Goodbye to Jean Calas in the captured isles adieux the Calas, a sa famille (title object) Object Type: picture Object number: : Bauer 50Engelmann 48 (Zweite Platte) -2 ( 2) Number of states known-2 (6) Note: Notes Engelmann library Rijksmuseum. Inscriptions / Brands: collector's mark, verso, stamped: Lugt 2228opschrift, verso, written in pencil: "48a Epr. RARISSIME avec l'année 1767, changee plus tard / and 1768. Très curieux et aux enconnue Biographes / rarité, si non unique / f "Description (?): The French merchant Jean Calas of Toulouse was in 1761 falsely accused of murdering Marc Antoine, his 30-year-old son. Calas (Calvinist) would have killed because they wanted to convert to Catholicism son. Calas to death was introduced in March 1762. This picture shows how the family goodbye Calas. The daughters of Calas embrace their father, while his son Pierre hand shore. In the right corner is the wife of Calas fainted. Lawyer Gaubert LAVAYSSE and the maid trying to bring her with wet cloth regained consciousness. At the door at the left show two guards spiritual inside. Following this event, Voltaire wrote his Traité de la tolerance'. Manufacturer : printmaker Daniel Nikolaus ChodoWie: CKI (listed building) in its design: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki (listed property) to painting by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki ( listed on object) to print by Jean-Baptiste Delafosse (possible) to order of Louis the Carmontelleschrijver Jean Racine (listed property) Place manufacture: Berlin Date: 1767 Physical features: etching material: paper Technique: etching dimensions: sheet: h 346 mm (partially cut at the plate edge) × W 447 mm (partially cut at the plate edge) ToelichtingHet caption is from 'Athalie' (1691), a tragedy by Jean Racine. Subject: prisoner in cell or locked place last hours before executionweepingWieJean Calas
Size: 1777px × 1406px
Photo credit: © Art World / Alamy / Afripics
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