Mon piano est détestable…. Je t'en prie, achète m'en un autre!

Beaumont, Edouard de (1821-1888)

Destouches, Pierre Louis Hippolyte (born 1801)


Item type:
print
Date of creation:
1859
Height:
32.5 cm  (12 13/16 in.)
Width:
24.0 cm  (9 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
lithography on paper
Place of creation:
Paris (France)

Additional titles

My piano is detestable….., I beg you, buy me another!

Description

A young woman with her hands clasped under her chin gazes downward toward an older man. She is wearing a long dress with half sleeves and a bracelet on her right arm. The older man is seen in left profile and looks at her scowling slightly. He has mutton chop side burns and is wearing a suit with tails and a cravat. They are standing in front of a small spinet piano. There is a caption under the drawing.

Iconclass

48C7333
pianoforte
32A5
caricatures (human types)
31D14(+3)
adult man (+ sideview, profile)
31D15(+1)
adult woman (+ front view)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Square pianoforte [2308] (A small spinet piano.)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Caption: Mon piano est détestable ....., je t'en prie, achète m'en un autre! .... / Pas pour le moment, Wagner est en train de faire une révolution dans la musique ...., il changer a / sans doute aussi les instruments .... et peut être bien que d'ici à peu de temps le piano sera / remplacé par quelque chose de moins cher! .....
Lithography by Pierre Louis Hippolyte Destouches.
Publisher: Bureau du Charivari et chez Martinet.

RIdIM record id

5326