Title
'Les Types de la Commune', 1875
Caption
Left: a sailor 'Pétroleur' (male arsonist). An imaginary figure of the incendiary Communard depicted as a drunken sailor, motivated more by vice than by conviction.
Centre: a police commissioner. Caricatured as a casual, idle petty bourgeois, indifferent to public order.
Right: avengers of Gustave Flourens. Supporters of the martyr of the Commune depicted as threatening thugs indulging in blind violence.
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_006
License type
Rights managed
Available size
73,8Mb (6,1Mb) / 20,8in x 13,8in / 6239 x 4134 (300dpi)