ALEXANDRE ET DIOGÈNE. Le Sage qui goipait dans le simple appareil D'un voyou fumant sa bouffarde. Dit au héros qui le regarde: Esbigne-toi de mon soleil! Goualante de Mr. Eugène Sue.
ALEXANDRE ET DIOGÈNE. Le Sage qui goipait dans le simple appareil D'un voyou fumant sa bouffarde. Dit au héros qui le regarde: Esbigne-toi de mon soleil! Goualante de Mr. Eugène Sue.
Title (alt.):
ALEXANDER AND DIOGENES. The sage lounging in the simple attire Puffing at his clay-pipe. Said to the Hero looking at him: Be off, out of my sun! Popular hit by Mr. Eugène Sue.. Charivari
Description:
Diogenes asks Alexander to move because the latter's shadow is blocking the sun. 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, August 14, 1842.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
