Title
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over
1834
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Lower the curtain, the farce is over. (Daumier Register)
- Alternative title
- Baissez le rideau, la farce est jouée.
- Date
- 1834
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Edition
- only state
- Dimensions
- 19.9 x 27.8 cm image
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1988
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 480.1988
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Honoré Daumier
Works in the collection
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About
Plate 421 published in 'La Caricature', no 201, 11 September 1834.
The familiar corpulent figure of King Louis-Philippe is shown as a grinning clown standing on stage and waving his rod towards the blindfolded figure of justice. The stage on which the curtain is about to descend reveals the interior of the Chamber of Deputies. The title refers to the last words of the French 16th-century humanist writer François Rabelais.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 1990–27 Jan 1991
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Nicholas Draffin, Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Sydney, 1991, pp 3, 6, illus p 16.
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