Lafayette Being Placed in Irons
In 1792 Lafayette left France and was recognized in the Austrian-held Netherlands (now Belgium) and arrested. Here, guards fit him with irons in prison. In May 1794 he would be transferred to a barracks-prison, formerly a Jesuit college in Olmütz, Moravia (today Olomouc in the Czech Republic). American influence made it possible for his wife and daughters to join in him 1795, and the prisoner would finally be released to the American consul in Hamburg in October 1797.
Artwork Details
- Title: Lafayette Being Placed in Irons
- Artist: François Jules Gabriel Depeuille (French, active Paris, 1783–98)
- Artist: After Henry Robert Morland (British, London (?) 1716?–1797 London)
- Publisher: Anker Smith (British, London 1759–1819 London)
- Sitter: Marquis de Lafayette (French, 1757–1834)
- Date: ca. 1795
- Medium: Stipple engraving
- Dimensions: Image: 16 3/16 in. × 13 in. (41.1 × 33 cm)
Plate: 18 7/8 × 14 15/16 in. (48 × 38 cm)
Sheet: 19 11/16 in. × 13 in. (50 × 33 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883
- Object Number: 83.2.2002
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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