TÉLÉMAQUE ET MENTOR. Voyant son langoureux pupille, Brûler pour Eucharis d'un feu toujours nouveau; Mentor d'un coup de poing le flanqua raide à l'eau Pour lui faire abandonner l'ile. Unique quatrain de Mr. Duponchel.
TÉLÉMAQUE ET MENTOR. Voyant son langoureux pupille, Brûler pour Eucharis d'un feu toujours nouveau; Mentor d'un coup de poing le flanqua raide à l'eau Pour lui faire abandonner l'ile. Unique quatrain de Mr. Duponchel.
Title (alt.):
TELEMACHUS AND MENTOR. Seeing his languorous pupil, Burning for Eucharis by an always new fire; Mentor threw him overboard into the steep water To abandon him from the island. The only quatrain by Mr. Duponchel.. Charivari
Description:
Mentor has just hit Telemachus to make him forget his love for Eucharis. During the 1840's, a quarrel between painters of the classic and romantic schools had fully flared up. Delacroix asked the "loaded" question: "Who is going to liberate us from the old Greeks?" Daumier succeeded to answer it his own way by showing historic personalities such as Hercules, Pygmalion or Agamemnon in absurd situations.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
3rd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, October 6, 1842.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
