GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This illustration appeared as the tailpiece for the "Introduction" to Baron Taylor's Voyage en Auvergne (1829). The book is the fourth of twenty volumes from Baron Taylor and Charles Nodier's Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France (Paris, 1820-78). Vercingétorix was the leader of the Gallic armies when they were defeated by Julius Ceasar in 52 BC.
Drawn from
Loys Delteil, Delacroix: The Graphic Work, A Catalogue Raisonné, (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1997), 227.
NOTES
Title (Vercingétorix) and information pulled from material on AIC and Boston MFA websites. Previously Untitled.
Asked BMac how to fix alpha sort to use the artist name instead of printer's name.
2nd state
Delteil no. 90, page 226-227
This was a useful web resource but the link was not working as of September 2015-
Read more about the patriotic symbolism of Vercingétorix to the French during the 19th century.
Hannah Burke, "Vercingétorix and the Celts in Nineteenth Century France," Celtic Art and Cultures, University of North Carolina, Student and Faculty exhibits created for Art 467: Celtic Art (2014), http://digitalresearch.lib.unc.edu/exhibits/show/hburke/exhibition-essay/essay.
This link also did not work when tested in September 2015:
Check out how researchers have assembled a reconstructed portrait of Vercingétorix based on written and visual evidence. "Vercingetorix," Reportret (2005, updated in 2012), http://www.reportret.info/gallery/vercingetorix1.html.
Provenance (not public)
Before 2000: Juanita K. Bromberg, Dallas, TX
After 2000: Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts, bequest of the above [1]
[1] The Foundation for the Arts is a non-profit corporation created as a title-holding entity to serve the people of Dallas but to operate independently of the City. The Dallas Museum of Art (at its own cost) is responsible for the care, storage, insurance, conservation and maintenance of the collection, and agrees to maintain the highest museum standards in the management and handling of the Foundation’s collection. The title to all works of art purchased or otherwise acquired by the Foundation for the Arts is retained by the Foundation.
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Produced: Paris (France): TGN: 7008038
Depicted location: Gaul (historical region/Europe): TGN: 4004256
Other- Auvergne (region/France): TGN: 7002871- subject of the book.
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crown
beard
shield
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Julius Ceasar
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- The inscription "lacroix" is visible on the lower left of the image. Several of Delacroix's early lithographs suffered the same mishap. The first two letters of his name were cropped by the printer.
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General Description
This illustration appeared as the tailpiece for the "Introduction" to Baron Taylor's Voyage en Auvergne (1829). The book is the fourth of twenty volumes from Baron Taylor and Charles Nodier's Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France (Paris, 1820-78). Vercingétorix was the leader of the Gallic armies when they were defeated by Julius Ceasar in 52 BC.
Drawn from
Loys Delteil, Delacroix: The Graphic Work, A Catalogue Raisonné, (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1997), 227.
Fun Facts
- The inscription "lacroix" is visible on the lower left of the image. Several of Delacroix's early lithographs suffered the same mishap. The first two letters of his name were cropped by the printer.
Archival Resources
Web Resources
Notes
Title (Vercingétorix) and information pulled from material on AIC and Boston MFA websites. Previously Untitled.
Asked BMac how to fix alpha sort to use the artist name instead of printer's name.
2nd state
Delteil no. 90, page 226-227
This was a useful web resource but the link was not working as of September 2015-
Read more about the patriotic symbolism of Vercingétorix to the French during the 19th century.
Hannah Burke, "Vercingétorix and the Celts in Nineteenth Century France," Celtic Art and Cultures, University of North Carolina, Student and Faculty exhibits created for Art 467: Celtic Art (2014), http://digitalresearch.lib.unc.edu/exhibits/show/hburke/exhibition-essay/essay.
This link also did not work when tested in September 2015:
Check out how researchers have assembled a reconstructed portrait of Vercingétorix based on written and visual evidence. "Vercingetorix," Reportret (2005, updated in 2012), http://www.reportret.info/gallery/vercingetorix1.html.
Provenance (not public)
Before 2000: Juanita K. Bromberg, Dallas, TX
After 2000: Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts, bequest of the above [1]
[1] The Foundation for the Arts is a non-profit corporation created as a title-holding entity to serve the people of Dallas but to operate independently of the City. The Dallas Museum of Art (at its own cost) is responsible for the care, storage, insurance, conservation and maintenance of the collection, and agrees to maintain the highest museum standards in the management and handling of the Foundation’s collection. The title to all works of art purchased or otherwise acquired by the Foundation for the Arts is retained by the Foundation.
Catalogue essays specific to object
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Produced: Paris (France): TGN: 7008038
Depicted location: Gaul (historical region/Europe): TGN: 4004256
Other- Auvergne (region/France): TGN: 7002871- subject of the book.
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
illustration
trees
crown
beard
shield
sword
helmet
axe
spearhead
standing
chieftan
Julius Ceasar
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