TÉLÉMAQUE RAVAGÉ PAR L'AMOUR. En dépit de Mentor qui le grognait sans cesse Il butinait chaque matin Les plus brillantes fleurs pour sa tendre maîtresse, Fleurs dont la piquante drolesse Ornait sa gorge de satin. (Cigarette par Mr. Alfred de Musset).

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Title:
TÉLÉMAQUE RAVAGÉ PAR L'AMOUR. En dépit de Mentor qui le grognait sans cesse Il butinait chaque matin Les plus brillantes fleurs pour sa tendre maîtresse, Fleurs dont la piquante drolesse Ornait sa gorge de satin. (Cigarette par Mr. Alfred de Musset).
Title (alt.):
TELEMACHUS RAVAGED BY LOVE. Despite Mentor who grumbled incessantly He only bothered about his feeling He gathered each morning flowers in a chest To ornament his mistresses breast. (Cigarette by Mr. Alfred de Musset).. Charivari
Description:
H. Nehr in "Das Sentimentalische Objekt" Heidelberg 2007, p. 40ff draws an interesting parallel from Flaubert’s first version in 1845 of "L’Education Sentimental" to Daumier’s Telemachos shown here. According to history, Telemachos was supposed to be a strong young hero full of energy and awakening feelings of love and passion (ravagé par l’amour). Daumier’s hero however is characterized with a tilting bunch of flowers, the counterpoint to virulence. The entire image shows the end of the once powerful pseudo-Greek bourgeois way of thinking, a message conveyed in Daumier’s entire "Histoire Ancienne" series. 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.
Donor:
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M.
Lithographer:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
Date:
1842
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Location:
Brandeis University Libraries
Collection (local):
Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs
Subjects:
Greek
Mythology, Greek
Love
Mythology
France--History--Louis-Philip, 1830-1848
Antiquities in art
Telemachus (Greek mythology)
Extent:
1 lithograph, b&w, 36 x 24.5 cm
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10192/4899
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:
3rd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, October 9, 1842.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
Identifier:
LD951