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.
Date:
[1852]
Reference:
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

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

1 print : lithograph ; image 16.2 x 28.1 cm

Lettering

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

References note

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 6418i

Reproduction note

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

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