File:Mr L'ane comme il n'y en a point. Peu m'importent les chefs d'oeuvres de tous les arts, pourvu que j'écrase, que je m'élève, et que le chardon ne me manque pas. (BM 1991,0615.132).jpg

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Mr L'ane comme il n'y en a point. Peu m'importent les chefs d'oeuvres de tous les arts, pourvu que j'écrase, que je m'élève, et que le chardon ne me manque pas.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Mr L'ane comme il n'y en a point. Peu m'importent les chefs d'oeuvres de tous les arts, pourvu que j'écrase, que je m'élève, et que le chardon ne me manque pas.
Description
English: Satire of a donkey with the face of Louis Sebastien Mercier, kicking over with his hind feet a bust of Apollo and the Transfiguration of Raphael, and trampling with his front feet the books of Descartes and Racine. 1797
Etching and engraving
Depicted people Associated with: Louis Sébastien Mercier
Date 1797
date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 236 millimetres
Width: 263 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1991,0615.132
Notes The satire arises from a report written by Mercier of a commission appointed by the Conseil de 500 and submitted in January 1797. It was hostile to the proposed creation of a chalcographie nationale organised on commercial lines. See George D. McKee, 'Collection publique et droit de reproduction, les origines de la Chalcographie du Louvre 1794-7', in 'Revue de l'Art' 98 (1992) pp.54-65, and esp. pp.55 and 63.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1991-0615-132
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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