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Artist
- Name:
- Daumier, Honoré
- Dates:
- 1808-1879
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Humor, People
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- National Gallery of Art Washington DC
Periodical
- Title:
- Le Charivari
- Author(s):
- Collective work
- Published:
- Paris, 1840
Description
A man sitting in front of his dinner at a restaurant table delicately pulls a long hair out of his mouth with a disgusted grimace. The caption and its fictitious attribution to Victor Hugo are a humorous reference to a scene from Notre-Dame de Paris, in which Jehan Frollo, in similar circumstances, shouts to the innkeeper: “D’ye hear, devil’s cook, I like bald omelets.”
This illustration was published in Le Charivari on October 15, 1840. It is the second lithograph in a series of eight titled Silhouettes. Second state of three.
The caption reads in the original French: ‘Holà, hé ! madame l’hôtesse, j’aime les potages chauves.’ (Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris.)
Keywords: 1840s, 19th century, anger, black & white, dining, eating, male, periodical
