Conduite courageuse de Mr. Pigeon [graphic] / déposé à la Don.

Creator:

Cari, Godissart de, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[1816 or 1817?]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.0 x 15.6 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/4083207

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Series title and number from caption above image.
Printmaker's name etched in image, on left baseboard.
Plate 14 in this series is dated 1817 in the British Museum online catalogue.
Sheet dimensions from British Museum catalogue.
"The series 'Musée Grotesque' consists of at least 65 plates, made over a long period between March 1814 and August 1829. They seem all to have been designed, and in some cases etched, by Godissart de Cari, and all are placed under his name in the British Museum. The first four plates of the series, unlike the others, do not carry the heading 'Musée Grotesque' but rather 'Les Nouvellistes' and are numbered 1 to 4."--British Museum online catalogue.

Abstract:

A man and woman in their pajamas and slippers stand looking in fright at the closed door of their bedroom. He wears a night cap and stands with a weapon in each hand, pointed at the door; his figure casts a large shadow on the back wall and over the bureau on which sits his tricorne hat. His wife (right) clings to his nightshirt, as she holds up a candlestick to light their way. She has her hair tied up in a scarf. To the right, their infant cries in its basket under which sits a overflowing chamber pot. On the other side of the closed door is a small mouse.

Variant Titles:

Musée grotesque ; no. 12
Musée grotesque. No. 12.

Topics:

Bedrooms.
Candlesticks.
Chamber pots.
Couples.
Daggers & swords.
Families.
Fear.
Mice.
Sleepwear.

Topics:

Martinet, Aaron, 1762-1841, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr98004866

Language:

French

Genre:

Etchings--France--Paris--1816.
Satires (Visual works)--France--1816.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

816.00.00.80

Orbis Record:

13296723

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr35518

OID:

16227173

PID:

digcoll:4083207