Une APPLICATION UTILE DU DIAMANT MAGNÉTISEUR. - Ma femme est bien magnétisée!....... je peux filer tranquillement pour le bal de l'opéra.... dors bien bobonne!...
Une APPLICATION UTILE DU DIAMANT MAGNÉTISEUR. - Ma femme est bien magnétisée!....... je peux filer tranquillement pour le bal de l'opéra.... dors bien bobonne!...
Title (alt.):
Charivari. A USEFUL APPLICATION OF DIAMOND HYPNOTISM. - My wife is really hypnotized!....... I can quietly slip away to the opera ball.... sleep well, little wife!...
Description:
A man uses diamond hypnotism to put his wife under a trance so that he can leave to go to a party. The clown (Pierrot) is the classical personification of traditional pantomime. SPIRITISM, FLUIDOMANIE, THE OCCULT. The word „Fluidomanie“ used for this series can hardly be found in a French dictionary... it is a rather spirited invention of one of the Charivari’s journalists and can best be translated as “Ghostly Games”. The so-called fashionable Parisian bourgeoisie had caught on to spiritualism which was already fashionable in the USA and England. Table-turning, chiromancy and necromancy became an entertaining part of an evening invitation. As we can see in Daumier’s prints, some of these activities easily went out of control, creating some beautifully embarrassing situations.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, January 24, 1860.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
