print;
satirical print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1989,0128.31
- Title
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Object: Les favoris de la poire
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Series: La Caricature
- Description
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Number 257: A large pear (as an emblem of Louis Philippe) with a face, on the ground, snuggled up to by d'Argout at left, and Barthe at right; d'Argout is depicted with a long, pointed nose and scissors in his pocket; Barthe is depicted with mismatched eyes; on the floor are scraps of censored documents with the words 'La Caricature' and 'Etat de siècle'; published in 'La Caricature', no. 124 (21 March 1833). 1832
Hand-coloured lithograph
- Production date
- 1832
- Dimensions
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Height: 362 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 269 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bouquet's 'Les Favoris de la poire' bears out the latent malice of the pear as an emblem for the king; once it is ripe, it will rapidly spoil. Here he is depicted as a pear-shaped body, but the body now has a face. Two of the king's minister, Argout the censor with his scissors, and Barthe, the Minister of Justice who administers punishment. Both snuggle up to the fleshy substance of Louis Philippe's pear-body, as though to caress it and be sheltered by it. In fact, they become his whiskers. Although the meaning is self-evident in this fully articulated image, Philipon took advantage of the double meaning of 'favoris' as 'favourites' and 'whiskers'.
[From 'The Pear: French Graphic Arts in the Golden Age of Caricature' by E. K. Kenny and J. M. Merriman (Massachusetts, 1991), p. 63, No. 26]
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
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Associated Event: July Monarchy 1830-1848
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Associated Event: Battle of Jemappes 6 November 1792
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Associated Event: Battle of Valmy 20 September 1792
- Associated titles
Associated Title: La Caricature
- Acquisition date
- 1989
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1989,0128.31
