French Lenten Tuesday, c. 1701-1713, anonymous, 1701 - 1713 Canvas Print

French Lenten Tuesday, c. 1701-1713, anonymous, 1701 - 1713 Canvas Print

The French Lenten Tuesday. Allegory of the tarragonades in France under King Louis XIV. On the left, the virtues are chased away by Jesuits, they flee to a temple (the Republic) where they are welcomed. Central the bloodletting of France, the blood is licked by dogs. On the right Mars with a wooden leg with death, poverty, widows and orphans in its wake. On the sheet below the plate the interplay between a Swede and a Dane in Dutch and French. Part of a group of separate cartoons on Louis XIV during the War of the Spanish Succession, ca. 1701-1713.

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