JAZET Jean-Pierre
FICHE 11493
(Paris 1788 - 1871)
After Jacques-Louis David (Paris 1748 - Bruxelles 1825)
Serment du jeu de Paume
Le 20 juin 1789, les Membres de l'Assemblée nationale se rendant à la salle de leurs Séances à Versailles, trouvèrent ce lieu fermé que l'Assemblée était constituée et se rendit avec les autres députés à la salle du Jeu de Paume de la rue St François où ils jurèrent et entouré de Gardes françaises qui leur en refusèrent l'entrée au nom du Roi. Le président Bailly dressa le procès verbal de ce refus solennellement de ne jamais se séparer tant que la Constitution du Royaume ne serait pas fermement établie.
Aquatint
1825
Nice impression on wove paper, published by Jazet and Thre Vibert, Paris.
The opening of the Estates General led to a dispute: because of the king's refusal to proceed to a vote by head - and not by order, which would have given a majority to the Clergy and the Nobility - the Third Estate proclaimed itself National Assembly and invited the two orders to join him. On June 20, 1789, they took an oath in the Jeu de Paume hall never to separate before having drafted a Constitution. Standing on a table, the president of the Assembly - astronomer Bailly - reads the text of the oath. In the foreground, we recognize Mirabeau, Gregoire and Barnave.
In an unstable and rapidly changing political climate, David could never finish his Jeu de Paume. However, we can imagine what the canvas should look like thanks to the drafts that David left us. At the death of the painter, Jean-Pierre Jazet commemorates this vast project in this aquatint interpretated after a sketch.
Sheet: 720 x 965 mm.
Plate: 640 x 850 mm.
Condition: wide margins, soft marks and slight scattered foxing in the margins.
