MARIUS À CARTHAGE. Soldat, dis au sénat qu'en ma noble débine, J'ai pris pour chaise une ruine; Et que si j'étais à Sylla, Je ne serais pas assis là. (Calembourg attribué à Mr. Cousin).
MARIUS À CARTHAGE. Soldat, dis au sénat qu'en ma noble débine, J'ai pris pour chaise une ruine; Et que si j'étais à Sylla, Je ne serais pas assis là. (Calembourg attribué à Mr. Cousin).
Title (alt.):
MARIUS AT CARTHAGE. Soldier, say to the senate of my noble poverty, I have taken a chair of ruin; And if I were in Sylla, I would not be sitting here. (Pun attributed to Mr. Cousin).. Charivari
Description:
In this print, we see that Marius instructs a soldier to tell the Senate that he will not leave Carthage. 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, November 13, 1842.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
