Gabriel's "clubbists"

Here is a set of fifteen sketches by Georges-François-Marie Gabriel, from the Carnavalet, said to represent "clubbists" from the Revolutionary era.  They were shown to the Friends of the Carnavalet as new acquisitions in 2010, but I can't find out any more details.

The individuals depicted are perhaps stock Revolutionary types rather than  real people.  Maybe Gabriel used them for reference to add hats and hairstyles to his portraits.

Musée Carnavalet, D.16398 à D.16412.  

Entries on the Musées de Paris website: 
https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/portrait-d-homme-portant-un-bonnet-phrygien-profil-gauche#infos-principales

The drawings are about 7.5 cm x 5.5 cm. 
Black crayon and wash.

Displayed in uniform mounts.

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Gabriel: Revolutionary caricatures

 

The musée Carnavalet possesses a striking series of small portraits of famous Revolutionaries, the work of the miniaturist and illustrator Georges-François-Marie Gabriel (1775-1865).  There are thirteen in total, each measuring about 10 cm by 7 cm.

Vivant Denon: More Revolutionary scenes

Besides his series of named Revolutionaries, Vivant Denon produced a number of other vivid drawings of Revolutionary scenes.  The Metropolitan Museum has several studies of soldiers and National Guardsmen which were acquired from the Rolls-Shelley sale in 1961:

Vivant Denon, Sketches of soldiers & Guardsmen, Metropolitan Museum collections

Vivant Denon: Revolutionary "heads"

Vivant Denon produced a number of quirky and disturbing "heads" of well-known Revolutionaries, purportedly drawn from life before the Tribunal or on their way to execution. 

In the later 19th century these portraits were known mainly through the series of engravings by Jules Porreau, created during the July Monarchy, for the publisher and dealer Jean-Eugène Vignères.  The Revolutionaries represented are listed as: Danton, Gobel, Hébert, Fouquier-Tinville, Chaumette, Carrier and finally the Chouan leader Georges Cadoudal.  The first six were all condemned and guillotined in 1794 or 1795; the seventh, Cadoudal, was executed much later, in 1804. 

In modern times, many of Denon's original drawings have been rediscovered.  The most important set was sold in 1961 by Christie's in London as part of the collection of Lady Eleanor Shelley-Rolls (whose mother Lady Llangattock owned many of Nelson's letters.)   Some of the pictures from this auction were purchased at the time by the Metropolitan Museum; others have been acquired by the Louvre as recently as 2003. A second, hitherto uncatalogued, group of drawings was sold at auction in 2013.