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| Title | Jugement Dernier |
| Subtitle | La Barque de Charon |
| Creator | [Vallardi] |
| Publisher | [Journal des Arts] |
| Place of Publication | [France -- Paris] |
| Date | [1815] |
| Caption Text | Caption on image:
Jugement Dernier (Last Judgment)
Déposé a la Direction (Passed by the French censor)
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| Historical Notes | This drawing is a parody of Michelangelo's Barge of Charon painting in the Sistine Chapel. In Greek mythology, Charon transported the souls of the dead across the Acheron River ("river of woe") to the underworld. He would only carry those who had been buried with the proper burial rites, and who had a coin to pay for their passage. Thus, it was the custom in ancient Greece to bury people with a coin in their mouth.
Here, the artist has replaced the figures in Michelangelo's painting with key figures in Napoleon's government. Notice the phrygien red bonnets, and Cambacérès with the serpent coiled around him. The important characters are numbered per the following legend:
1. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais; 2. De__t (perhaps General Jacques Delort); 3. Maréchal Jean-Baptiste, Count of Erlon;4. General Lazare, Count of Carnot; 5. Maréchal Michel Ney, Duke of Elchingen; 6. Méhée de la Touche (spy); 7. Am__h (perhaps General Ambert?); 8. Caroline Bonaparte (Napoleon's youngest sister, married to Murat and named Queen of Naples); 9. Elise Bonaparte (Napoleon's oldest sister, named Grand Duchess of Tuscany); 10. Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai (state counselor); 11. Barrere; 12. Felix Lepelletier; 13. Pierre-François Réal (state counselor and vice minister of Police); 14. Br__r; 15. Hortense de Beauharnais (Josephine's daughter and Napoleon's stepdaughter, later married to his brother Louis); 16. Joseph Cardinal Fesch (Napoleon's spokesperson at the Vatican); 17. Regnier de St. J d'Angeli; 18. Napoleon; 19. Lelisle; 20. Jacques-Louis David (official portrait painter); 21. Bory de St. Vincent (cartographer); 22. Francois Louvet; 23. General Hulin; 24. General Anne Jean Marie Rene Savary, Duke of Rovigo; 25. General Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes; 26. Joseph Bonaparte (Napoleon's older brother, named King of Naples and later King of Spain); 27. Letizia (Napoleon's mother); 28. Jerome Bonaparte (Napoleon's youngest brother, named King of Westphalia); 29. Maréchal Joachim Murat (one of Napoleon's top generals, succeeded Joseph as King of Naples); 30. Lucien Bonaparte (another brother of Napoleon); 31. General Marie Joseph Paul de Motier, Marquis de Lafayette; 32. Sa__e (perhaps Maréchal-general Saxe?); 33. Mo__; 34. Maréchal Emmanuel, Marquis de Grouchy; 35. Maréchal Bertrand, count of Clausel; 36. General Henri-Gatien, count of Bertrand; 37. Pauline Bonaparte (another sister of Napoleon); 38. Cambacéres (First Consul); 39. Charles-Jean Harel (viceroy and later playwright); 40. General Pierre Jacques Etienne, viscount of Cambronne; 41. General C. de la Bedoyère; 42. Pierre Simon de Laplace (senator); 43. Maréchal Jean-Baptiste Drouet; 44. General Louis de Mesnage de Gagny; 45. Georges Couthon (close associate of Robespierre); 46. Robespierre; 47. Jean-Paul Marat (one of the most radical revolutionaries); 48. Jean-Baptiste Carrier (extreme revolutionary); 49. François-Noel Babeuf (early revolutionary)
Reference Source: De Vinck #10384; Catalogue de collection du Musée Napoléon d'Arenenberg.
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| Publishing Notes | First published on August 7, 1815. Dépot légal August 19, 1815. The drawing was published in the Journal des Arts on October 1, 1815.
Also found in the De Vinck collection, tome 80, folio 64, #10384/85.
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| Subjects(LCTGM) | Legislators--France--Drawings
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Political cartoons
History--Caricatures & cartoons
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| Geographic Coverage | France |
| Digital Collection | Napoleonic Period Collection
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| Digital ID Number | NAP49 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Napoleon Collection |
| UW Reference Number | F16 |
| Object Type | Print |
| Physical Description | Etching, hand colored ; plate mark 38 x 25 cm. on sheet 39 x 28 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original drawing in RGB at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2006. |
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