Mlle. Etienne-Joconde-Cunégonde-Bécassin de Constitutionnel...
Honoré Daumier|Delaunois
May 8, 1834 · Lithograph · Drawings and Prints
In this lithograph published in "La Caricature," Daumier lampoons the bourgeois journal "Le Constitutionnel," shown in the guise of a corpulent woman with the head of the editor Charles Guillaume Etienne. A medallion of King Louis-Philippe displayed prominently between her breasts attests to the paper’s loyalty to the monarch. Etienne reacts with disdain to a performance of "Anthony," a play by Alexandre Dumas, père, which achieved great popular success, but was censored due to its critical view of marriage and casual portrayal of adultery.
- Artist
- Honoré Daumier|Delaunois
- Date
- May 8, 1834
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1918
