The family of Jean Calas sit listening to Alexandre Lavaysse reading a letter from Calas. Engraving by J.B. Delafosse after L.C. De Carmontelle.
- Carmontelle, 1717-1806.
- Date:
- 1765
- Reference:
- 37827i
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Jean Calas was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in Toulouse for the alleged murder of his son, and was tortured to death. In the present print, Alexandre-Pierre-Gualbert Lavaysse reads a letter (from Jean Calas?) to his family, who are still in the prison cell in which he had awaited execution
Publication/Creation
1765
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; image 29.4 x 42.4 cm
Lettering
La malheureuse famille Calas. La mere, les deux filles, avec Jeanne Viguiere, leur bonne servante, le fils et son ami, le jeune Lavaysse. Qualibus in tenebris vitae quantisque periclis. Degitur hoc aevi quodcumque est. L.C. De Carmontelle delineavit 1765. Delafosse sculpsit.
Notes
Duplicate record: may be merged with Wellcome Collection 28884i
References note
Marcel Roux, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome VI, Paris 1949, pp. 207-210, no. 55
Reference
Wellcome Collection 37827i
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