print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1893,0803.66
- Title
- Object: Les mots se ressemblent, les choses diffèrent; un visage serein - un visage serin
- Description
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A portrait of Napoléon I, bust-length, turned to the right, and a caricature of Charles X dressed as a priest, bust-length and turned to the left. 1830
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1830
- Dimensions
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Height: 90 millimetres (image size; Charles X)
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Height: 95 millimetres (image size; Napoleon)
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Width: 80 millimetres
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Width: 95 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Registered at the Bibliographie de la France, 18 Septembre 1830, no. 1011.
The portrait of Charles X reproduces a bust by Dantan (see Philippe Sorel, GBA 107 (1986), cat. No.43).
The title plays on the homophony between 'serein' (serene) and 'serin' (ninny).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1893
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1893,0803.66