print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1856,0913.135
- Title
- Object: Madame Jourdain discovers her husband at the Dinner which he gave the the Belle Marguse and the Count Dorante
- Description
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17thC French interior, Madame Jourdain enters unexpected on the left, interrupting the dinner party held by her husband, who sits at the head of the table, the Comte Dorante and the Belle Marquise, who starts from her chair; illustration from the 'Illustrated London News', 30 May 1846, p.360. 1846
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1846
- Dimensions
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Height: 161 millimetres
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Width: 225 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The subject is from Molière's 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme'. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1846 (no.496).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Act IV (1670))
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Associated Title: Illustrated London News
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1856,0913.135
