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Robert le diable
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Robert le diable (Robert the Devil) is an opera in five acts composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer between 1827 and 1831. One of the first grand operas, it caused a sensation when it debuted at the Paris…

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Giacomo Meyerbeer

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1831

Subjects:

Music, Print, Antisemitism, Love, Women

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Decorative Arts, Opera, Performing Arts
Title page of score featuring a man pointing downward at a woman who is on the ground gripping a cross.
“L’aigle déplumé! . . .” (The Bald Eagle!)
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This caricature of Napoleon III (1808–1873), the last monarch of France, was made after the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), when Napoleon was being held in captivity in…

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Alphonse Lévy

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1870–1871

Subjects:

Print, Art, Government, Humor, Politics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Decorative Arts, Print & Book Culture
Print depicting a man's head wearing helmet on an eagle's body chained to a perch and French caption.
Medal in Honor of the Grand Sanhedrin of Napoleon
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Engravers Alexis Joseph Depaulis and Augustin Dupré collaborated on this remarkable Napoleonic-era medal that honored the Grand Sanhedrin, a representative body of seventy-one rabbis and Jewish…

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Alexis Joseph Depaulis, Augustin Dupré

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1806

Subjects:

Government, Art, Portrait, Enlightenment, Emancipation

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Decorative Arts, Coins
Bronze medal featuring profile of man in epaulets and laurel above head and Latin text.