- Eh! bien, mon ami, a quoi penses-tu donc de te relever comme ça au milieu de la nuit, serais tu indisposé?... - Tais toi ... je crois avoir été appelé par ma table, quand elle frappe du pied c’est signe qu’elle s’impatiente.

Item Information

Title:
- Eh! bien, mon ami, a quoi penses-tu donc de te relever comme ça au milieu de la nuit, serais tu indisposé?... - Tais toi ... je crois avoir été appelé par ma table, quand elle frappe du pied c’est signe qu’elle s’impatiente.
Title (alt.):
- Eh! well, my friend, what are you thinking when you get up in the middle of the night, are you ill?... - Shut up ... I think I was called by my table, when it strikes it's foot it is a sign she is getting impatient.. Charivari
Description:
A man and his wife have woken up in the night from a noise. The man begins talking to a table thinking that there is a spirit is trying to contact him. 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.
Donor:
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M.
Lithographer:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
Date:
1865
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Location:
Brandeis University Libraries
Collection (local):
Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs
Subjects:
Conversation pieces
France--History--1848-1870
Extent:
1 lithograph, b&w, 30 x 28.5 cm
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10192/3898
Terms of Use:
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:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, November 7, 1865.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
Identifier:
LD3470