Miss Etienne-Mona-Lisa-Cunégonde-Silly Goose of the Constitutionnel, indignate, choking and over-ornate at the performance of Anthony in which the mischievous Dumas had the indecency of scoffing at th

Miss Etienne-Mona-Lisa-Cunégonde-Silly Goose of the Constitutionnel, indignate, choking and over-ornate at the performance of Anthony in which the mischievous Dumas had the indecency of scoffing at the noble family Silly Goose of the Constitutionnel..., plate 385 (1834) is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The museum lists its creator attribution as Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879.

The work and its context

The Art Institute of Chicago describes the work:

Here Daumier targeted the bourgeois newspaper Le Constitutionnel, a mouthpiece for the monarch run by Louis Philippe’s deputy Charles-Guillaume Étienne. The paper is portrayed as a corpulent woman with a gourd-like head and a face belonging to Étienne. Pear-shaped globules hang from her ears, and an imperialistic profile of Louis Philippe nestles between her ample breasts.

Object facts

• Title: Miss Etienne-Mona-Lisa-Cunégonde-Silly Goose of the Constitutionnel, indignate, choking and over-ornate at the performance of Anthony in which the mischievous Dumas had the indecency of scoffing at the noble family Silly Goose of the Constitutionnel..., plate 385
• Date: 1834
• Artist attribution: Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
• Place of origin: France
• Medium: Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
• Dimensions: Image: 31.1 × 24.5 cm (12 1/4 × 9 11/16 in.); Sheet: 26.2 × 33.9 cm (10 3/8 × 13 3/8 in.)
• Type: Print
• Department: Prints and Drawings
• Reference number: 1958.763

Collection credit

John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection

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