Germeuil (Baculard d'Arnaud, The Trials of Emotion vol4) - Halbou after Marillier

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Germeuil (Baculard d'Arnaud, The Trials of Emotion vol4) - Halbou after Marillier

Germeuil (Baculard d'Arnaud, The Trials of Emotion vol4) - Halbou after Marillier

Description

Germeuil, a gullible married nobleman, falls prey to two schemers, Blinval and Madame de Cérignan, who plan to ruin him. To achieve their ends, they seduce him, and Germeuil ends up becoming Madame de Cérignan's lover. Their scheming intensifies when they learn that Germeuil's wife Adélaïde is about to inherit a huge fortune that would go to her husband if she were to disappear. So they decide to poison her, then convince Germeuil to marry Madame de Cérignan.

One day, Adélaïde, surrounded by her children, is about to drink the fatal brew when Germeuil, warned in time, runs to stop her. Upset, he breaks definitively with his false friends and chooses to redeem himself by devoting himself to his family.

The engraving depicts the moment when Germeuil interrupts his wife's gesture and seizes the glass from which she was about to drink. Around them, their children, symbols of the simple, happy life Germeuil has forsaken, clamor for their attention.

History :
  1. Signed and dated under the engraving, left "C. P. Marillier inv.", middle "1776", right "L. Halbou Sculp."
Textual Sources :
Baculard d'Arnaud, François-Thomas-Marie de (1718-1805)

Technical Data

Notice #025517

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Image editing :
Image web
Image Origin :
Bibliothèque numérique Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France (https://gallica.bnf.fr)
Copyright / Photographer :
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

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