Scene of Directory Life, Men and Women from L’Optique du Jour, ou le foyer de Montansier
Title
Scene of Directory Life, Men and Women from L’Optique du Jour, ou le foyer de Montansier
Description
After Jacobin control faded, with its repression of exuberant social life as well as political diversity, the following years saw a rebirth of open pleasures. This image focuses on fashionable men and women enjoying the good life. Some contemporaries would see this as excessive and self–indulgent, and far bolder displays of sexuality and materialism. Indeed, what one sees here was at least surprising since only the nobility and the very rich had before 1789 experienced much in the radiant way evident in this image.
Creator
Edme Bovinet
Louis Binet
Source
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Date
1798-1799
Rights
Public Domain
Relation
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/119/
Format
JPEG
Language
French
Identifier
119
Original Format
Drawing
Physical Dimensions
9.2 x 12.6 cm
Title (French)
Le Foyer de la Montansier (aujourd'hui Palais-Royal)
Citation
Edme Bovinet and Louis Binet, “Scene of Directory Life, Men and Women from L’Optique du Jour, ou le foyer de Montansier,” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed December 22, 2024, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/119.