Allegory on the reign of shock of revolutionary Joseph le Bon, Charles Pierre Joseph Normand, after Poirier de Dunkerque, after Louis Lafitte, 1795 print Allegory on the reign of French revolutionary Joseph Le Bon in the years 1793-1794. Le Bon standing between two Guillotines and on the bodies of his victims drinks the blood of his victims from a chalice. In heaven time reveals the naked truth, the law watches. In addition, the all -sighted eye. Under the title a caption of four lines and a four -line verse in French. The print is from May 1795, in October Le Bon was executed himself. paper
Allegory on the reign of shock of revolutionary Joseph le Bon, Charles Pierre Joseph Normand, after Poirier de Dunkerque, after Louis Lafitte, 1795 print Allegory on the reign of French revolutionary Joseph Le Bon in the years 1793-1794. Le Bon standing between two Guillotines and on the bodies of his victims drinks the blood of his victims from a chalice. In heaven time reveals the naked truth, the law watches. In addition, the all -sighted eye. Under the title a caption of four lines and a four -line verse in French. The print is from May 1795, in October Le Bon was executed himself. paper etching violent death ~ beheading by guillotine. the all-seeing eye, triangle with eye ~ symbol of God the Father. Time denuding Truth. symbols and allegories of law; 'Legge', 'Legge civile' (Ripa)
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