- On dit que les Parisiens sont difficiles à satisfaire, sur ces quatre banquettes pas un mécontent... il est vrai que tous ces Français sont des Romains.
- On dit que les Parisiens sont difficiles à satisfaire, sur ces quatre banquettes pas un mécontent... il est vrai que tous ces Français sont des Romains.
Title (alt.):
- They say that Parisiens are difficult to satisfy, in these four seats there is not one malcontent... it's true that all Frenchmen are Romans.. Charivari
Description:
Claquers, or professional clappers for theater performances, are sitting in a theater and clapping wildly. It seems that the profession of the "claqueur", a paid person who claps and weeps at the right moment in the theater, goes back to Roman times under Emperor Nero. Still in Daumier's time these professionals were called "Romans". In the beautiful book "Les Français peints par eux-mêmes" we found a matching picture: the author of a new play peeks through the hole in the theater curtain and sighs: "thank God, the Romans have arrived", in other words: the claqueurs will save the show. CROQUIS PRIS AU THÉATRE Par DAUMIER CROQUIS PRIS AU THÉATRE, - PAR DAUMIER CROQUIS PRIS AU THÉATRE par DAUMIER a series of 10 lithographs which appeared between January 30, 1864 and June 12, 1865 in the CHARIVARI (with the exceptions of DR 3312 and DR 33122).
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, February 13, 1864.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
