Le banc des amateurs. Vue prise à l'opéra

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1852

Technique / Medium:

lithography on paper

Place of creation:

Paris (France)

Additional titles

Description

The caricature shows two men in evening dress seated in the audience at the opera. A younger, thin man on the left is looking at the stage with folded arms, and an older plump man on the right is looking through a pair of binoculars that he is holding up with his left hand. The man on the left has a top hat upside down on the seat to his right. Other audience members are drawn less distinctly in the background behind them. There is a title above the illustration and a caption at the bottom.

Iconclass

48C862
opera
48C78
listening to music
48A712
the audience ~ art performance
32B311(Frenchmen)
Europeans: Frenchmen
32A5
caricatures (human types)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Publisher: Chez Pannier & Cie.
Printer: Ch. Trinocq.
The lithograph is numbered 357 under the leg of the man on the left.
The date 15 Janvier 1852 is written in pencil and crossed out on the bottom. Other notations in pencil also appear in the bottom margin.

RIdIM record id

5319