Enfer et damnation! .... sifflée ! ... siflée !... Siiiiflée ! [Hell and damnation!... hissed!... hissed!... Hissssed! ...], from the series Les Bas Bleus
Artist/Maker
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808–1879)
Date1844
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 8 3/4 × 7 1/8 in. (22.2 × 18.1 cm)
Sheet: 14 5/16 × 9 7/8 in. (36.4 × 25.1 cm)
Sheet: 14 5/16 × 9 7/8 in. (36.4 × 25.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Frederick B. Artz (OC 1916)
PortfolioLes Bas Bleus (The Bluestockings)
Object number1937.33
Status
Not on viewThis bluestocking is livid because an audience has just hissed during a performance of her play. The female author is often depicted as mannish and ugly. Her intellectual output is just as deformed as her physique.
Exhibition History
Satire and Sympathy: Daumier’s Human Comedy
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 6, 1980 - March 9, 1980 )
The Human Comedy: Chronicles of 19th Century France
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 6, 2013 - December 22, 2013 )
Collections
- European
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19th century
19th century