François Denis Née
On l'a vu désarmer les Tirans et les Dieux (Tyrants and Gods are known to have yielded to him)

On l'a vu désarmer les Tirans et les Dieux (Tyrants and Gods are known to have yielded to him)

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On l'a vu désarmer les Tirans et les Dieux (Tyrants and Gods are known to have yielded to him)
CultureFrench
Titles
  • On l'a vu désarmer les Tirans et les Dieux (Tyrants and Gods are known to have yielded to him)
  • On l'a vu désarmer les Tirans et les Dieux
Datec. 1780–1781
Printed inParis, France
MediumEngraving with etching on laid paper
DimensionsPlate: 14 1/4 × 8 5/8 in. (36.2 × 21.9 cm)
Sheet: 14 13/16 × 9 in. (37.6 × 22.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by Bobbie Nau
Object numberB.2016.9
Non exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
DescriptionDepicting Benjamin Franklin seated in profile, this print is one of many that appeared after Franklin arrived in France in 1776 as envoy of the United States, seeking French assistance in the Revolutionary cause. The title is a paraphrase in French of the famous quote in Latin by French statesman Anne Robert Jacques Turgot: “Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis.” In English: “He seized lightning from the heavens and the scepter from tyrants.”
Provenance[William Reese Company, New Haven, Connecticut, as of 2016]; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed LL below edge of plate: L. C. de Carmontelle, Del.
Printed LC: On l'a vu désarmer les Tirans et les Dieux \ AParis chez Née rue des
Francs-Bourgeois, Porte St. Michel \ A.P.D.R.
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below the image, on the left, inscribed in printed ink: L.C.
Carmontelle, Del.
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, below the image, on the right: Née sculp.
Recto: Inscribed in cursive script in printed ink, below the image, center: On l'a vu Desarmer
les Tirans et les Dieux
[The French rendering of Turgot's Latin “Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tirannis”; in English,
"He seized lightning from the heavens and the scepter from tyrants."]
Recto: Inscribed in cursive script in printed ink, below the image, lower center: A Paris chez
Née rue des Francs-Bourgeois, Porte St. Michel/ A.P.D.R.
Watermark: none.
Verso: [inaccessible]
Catalogue raisonnéFirmon-Didot 1875–77 1872; LeB.III.93.6

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