LEVACHEZ, CHARLES, Pierre Manuel, procureur de la commune de Paris
Portrait of Louis Pierre Manuel (1751-1793), a republican French writer, municipal administrator of the police, and public prosecutor during the French Revolution. He was arrested and guillotined in 1793. Below the portrait a frieze depicting Manuel being attacked by a group of Jacobins. Etching (frieze) and aquatint (portrait) on wove paper, sheet size 318 x […]