Un orchestre dans une maison très comme il faut, où...

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1858

Technique / Medium:

lithography on paper

Place of creation:

Paris (France)

Additional titles

Description

This humorous scene shows five musicians performing before an audience. Two men are playing a flute and a cello from the same music stand. The flutist is scowling as he plays left-handed. The cellist is seated in front of the flutist. He is wearing glasses with his face very close to the music stand. A cat arching its back and tail stands on the floor in front of the cellist looking toward the pianist. A woman is seated at the right of the scene and is playing an upright piano with music on the music stand. Two women are singing with their heads uplifted and their mouths fully open behind the cellist and pianist. The audience is seated behind the musicians. The only illumination comes from a small oil lamp and a candelabra on the floor next to the cellist and in front of the cat. A title is above the illustration and the caption is below.

Iconclass

48C7542(+1)
musician(s) accompanying singer(s) (+ artist at work)
32A5
caricatures (human types)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Transverse flute [4093] (Played left-handed.)
Violoncello [3582]
Upright pianoforte [2311]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Hazard, Nicolas-Auguste, and Loÿs Delteil. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre lithographié de Honoré Daumier (Orrouy (Oise): N.A. Hazard, 1904), cat. no. 1173.ii, 281.

Notes

Plate 8 in the series From the journal, Le Charivari, 20 April 1858.
Publisher: Martinet.
Printer: Destouches.
Caption: Un orchestre dans une maison très comme il faut, où l'on se passe la fantaisie de jouer l'opérette.
No. 169 is written at the bottom of the illustration.

RIdIM record id

5325