- Voyez Mr. Mayeux, cet animal tient le milieu entre l'homme et le singe. - Dieu de Dieu! Il peut se flatter d'être b...ent laid!
Title (alt.):
- See, Mr. Mayeux, this animal is midway between man and ape. - Good god! It can flatter itself for being very ugly!. Charivari
Description:
A man is showing Mr. Mayeux an orangutan; the orangutan looks remarkably like Mr. Mayeux. LES ORANG-OUTANS(The orang-outangs) is a series of 4 lithographs, of which 3 appeared in the Charivari between September 21 and November 8, 1836. The fourth plate can only be found as “hors texte” (without text). In 1836 for the first time a live orang-outang by the name of Jack was exhibited in Paris. This inspired Grandville, Traviès and also Daumier to depict animals disguised as humans in their caricatures. TRAVIES DE VILLERS, Charles Joseph (1804-1859) was a painter and caricaturist, working for the newspapers "Charivari" and "Caricature". He created the fictitious personality “Mayeux”, a pendant to Daumier’s “Robert Macaire". Mayeux was small, often drunk, a typical bourgeois who was proud of his participation at the "Trois Glorieuses".
Copyright restrictions may apply. For permission to copy or use this image, contact the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department, Brandeis University Libraries. The following credit line must be included with each item used: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
Published in: Charivari, October 6, 1836.
1st state.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
