A cart of plague victims at Elliant drawn by a woman in rags. Lithograph by J. Moynet, 1852, after L. Duveau.

  • Duveau, Louis-Jean-Noël, 1818-1867.
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[1852]
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6418i
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Elliant is a town in Brittany, north west of France, near Quimper. A plague which afflicted the town in the 14th or 15th century was described in a traditional Breton song in the collection Barzaz Breiz, which was published by Théodore Hersart de La Villemarqué in 1839

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[Paris?] : Marchant. Ed. Alliance des Arts, [1852]

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1 print : lithograph ; image 16.2 x 28.1 cm

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La peste d'Elliant. Lith par Moynet. D'apres une esquisse de Louis Duvau.

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Bibliographie de la France, 10 avril 1852, no. 505 ("… La peste d'Elliant, par Moynet, d'après Louis Duvau. Imp. lithog. de Lemercier, à Paris. A Paris, chez Gihaut.")—Image of France database no. 47205

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Wellcome Collection 6418i

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After: a painting by Louis Duveau acquired by the Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper

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