The Dauphin and his doubles: visualizing Royal imposture after the French Revolution

• Richard Taws ^[1]
  1. [1] University College London

     University College London

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 98, Nº 1, 2016, págs. 72-100
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The dauphin Louis-Charles, son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoniette, died aged ten in 1795, yet rumors soon spread that he had been freed in a royalist plot, and for the next century false dauphins appeared around the world. Images of the dauphin were used as evidence to assess the authenticity of pretenders claiming to be the prince. The practice of comparing paintings, prints, and photographs representing royal impostors to eighteenth-century images of the dauphin intersected with debates about the relative truthfulness of competing media in the nineteenth cantury, and with attempts to come to terms with France's revolutionary past.