La femme du dentist veut bien accepter une loge à l’Opéra en compagnie de l’heureux Beaucoq, cependant le mari se montre gênant

Cham (1818-1879)


Item type:
print
Date of creation:
ca. 1856
Height:
32.3 cm  (12 11/16 in.)
Width:
24.2 cm  (9 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
lithography on paper
Place of creation:
Paris (France)

Additional titles

Beaucoq prend un bouillon pour se remettre de ses émotions
The dentist's wife is willing to accept a box at the Opera in the company of the happy Beaucoq, however, the husband proves troublesome

Description

This caricature shows an opera box with a woman and two men. The woman is seated at the front of the box in a large hoop dress and a fan in her right hand. Her bonnet is hung on the wall of the box to her right. She is looking back over her left shoulder in surprise at the two men. A bearded man with glasses sticks his head through the window of the opera box door and is staring intently at the woman. The chair to the left of the woman is empty. Another man is standing to the left of the chair at the back of the box and is looking in astonishment at the man at the door. This cartoon is above a second drawing of a scene in a restaurant showing two seated men and a waiter. The man on the left is pointing toward the waiter in the middle and has a wide-eyed expression and open mouth in reaction to the actions of the waiter. The waiter, seen from the back, has two bowls of soup each on a plate in his hands. The soup bowl on the right is spilling on the man seated on the right who holds a knife in his right hand.

Iconclass

48C862
opera
42D3
marriage, married couple, 'matrimonium'
32A5
caricatures (human types)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Notes

Published by Arnauld de Vresse (1856-1870).
Printed by Roche (active 19th century).

RIdIM record id

5323