- Allons bon! voici le journal qui annonce que les Français envoyent douze cents chasseurs en Chine!..... - Il faut qu'ils aiment joliment le gibier, pour en venir chercher jusque dans ce pays-ci!....

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Title:
- Allons bon! voici le journal qui annonce que les Français envoyent douze cents chasseurs en Chine!..... - Il faut qu'ils aiment joliment le gibier, pour en venir chercher jusque dans ce pays-ci!....
Title (alt.):
- Goodness! here the newspaper announces that the French are sending 1200 hunters to China!..... - They must really like game, to come looking for it in this country!..... Charivari
Description:
Two Chinese men are discussing the impending visit of twelve hundred Frenchmen who are coming to hunt game in China. CHINA. Daumier was quite unique in expressing common day behaviour in an exotic surrounding and still making the viewer understand the hidden message, without necessarily having to read the caption. He succeeded projecting typically French activities of daily life into an exotic setting, which would eventually distort the obvious while leaving the provocative message intact. He chose China as a setting for his lithographs since especially during the period of the early 1840s Chinese curios as well as chinoiseries had come into fashion. The middle class followed the taste set by the King in 1842 who had parts of the palace redecorated Chinese style. The dresses shown in the “Voyage en Chine” series have been “adjusted” to what a bourgeois Parisian would expect a Chinese to look like, sporting Chinese embroidering, ankle length wide trousers and flat slippers with upturned toes. The ladies’ hair was also worn the Chinese way, while some of the men wore the long, “typically Chinese” braid.
Donor:
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M.
Lithographer:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
Date:
1860
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, 29 x 29.5 cm
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10192/3659
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, March 1, 1860.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
Identifier:
LD3231