Caricatures of the French clergy under Louis XIV

Caricatures of the French clergy under Louis XIV

Le Pere Prieur qui ioue le rolle de Fou

RP-P-1905-2093

collector's mark: Lugt 2228

3/25

Cornelis Dusart and Jacob Gole collaborated on these two series of virulent anti-Catholic caricatures. This series consists of more than fifty prints of monks and nuns who embody sinful behaviour, vice and abuses within the Catholic Church. The heads (no portraits of historical individials but caricatures) exhibit attributes and traces of gluttony, heavy drinking, false piety and lust.

Hollstein Dutch 378

• print maker: Jacob Gole
• after design by: after design of Cornelis Dusart

1670 - 1724

mezzotint en gravure

height 115 mm x width 90 mm

De prent verscheen in de bundel "Renversement de la Morale Chrétienne par les désordres du Monachisme". Volgens Wiebke Schmoldt (1997) verscheen deze bundel tussen 1693 en 1700.

purchase 1905

Public domain

Hollstein Dutch 378

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200132644