Mlle. Etienne-Joconde-Cunégonde-Bécassin de Constitutionnel...
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Mlle. Etienne-Joconde-Cunégonde-Bécassin de Constitutionnel...
- Artist: Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)
- Publisher: Delaunois (French, active Paris, 1830–40)
- Date: May 8, 1834
- Medium: Lithograph
- Dimensions: sheet: 13 3/16 x 10 in. (33.5 x 25.4 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1918
- Object Number: 18.53.3
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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