They say that Parisians are difficult to please, on these four benches there is not one discontent-It is true that all these Frenchmen are Romans, 1864
Honoré Daumierexpand_more
Lithographexpand_more
Gift of Mrs. Charles C. Bovey, 1924expand_more P.10,176
Not on Viewexpand_more
Theatrical performances were popular entertainments in mid-nineteenth-century Paris. In this lithograph, Daumier focuses on the audience; especially the members of the "claque," a group hired to sit directly behind the orchestra to applaud the performance. Nearly every Parisian theater of this time employed a claque, and in this image, they are either genuinely fascinated by the show or quite successful in their own performance.
Details
- Title
- They say that Parisians are difficult to please, on these four benches there is not one discontent-It is true that all these Frenchmen are Romans
- Artist Life
- 1808–1879
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.10,176
- Provenance
- Sarah Bernhardt, Paris (until d. 1923; her sale, part 2, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, July 23, 1923, part of 27 albums in no. 723). [Weyhe Gallery, New York, until 1924; sold 27 albums, for $600, to Bovey for MIA]; Mrs. Charles C. Bovey, Minneapolis (1924; gave 27 albums to MIA)
- Catalogue Raisonne
- L.D. 3263 ii/ii; HD 1571
- Curator Approved
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