Title
'Les Types de la Commune', 1875
Caption
Left: Raoul Rigault's private guard (prosecutor of the Commune). Depicted as a servile brute facing a woman, caricaturing revolutionary power reduced to vulgar intimidation.
Centre: Commune National Guards during a raid on a printing press. Depicted as zealous extras in order to denounce bureaucratic repression.
Right: Petroleuses (female arsonists) on Rue de Lille. A misogynistic caricature of a post-Commune myth in which poverty is transformed into an incendiary threat.
Colour illustrations from a series of 12 plates published in Le Figaro's album "Les Type de la Commune" (Paris Commune). 1875 edition illustrated by Bertall and Henri Monnier.
Date
1875
Credit line
Photo12/Pierre Pitrou
Reference
PTR26A00_005
License type
Rights managed
Available size
68,4Mb (6,0Mb) / 20,0in x 13,3in / 6011 x 3976 (300dpi)