Madame Pipelet
Print
1870-1871 (printed)
1870-1871 (printed)
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Satirical print in which the Empress Eugénie is depicted as Madame Pipelet, wearing red boots and an apron, holding a dustpan and broom. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.
Object details
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| Title | Madame Pipelet (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Hand-coloured lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | 'Madame Pipelet'. Satirical illustration by Faustin Betbeder in which the Empress Eugénie is depicted as Madame Pipelet holding a dustpan and brush. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871. |
| Physical description | Satirical print in which the Empress Eugénie is depicted as Madame Pipelet, wearing red boots and an apron, holding a dustpan and broom. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc. |
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| Gallery label | "Faustin" (pseudonym of Faustin Betbeder) (born 1847)
The ex-Emperor and Empress are represented as Monsieur and Madame Pipelet, the door-keepers in Eugène Sue's novel Mystères de Paris, whose name has since been adopted for concierges in general. The caricature of Eugénie plays on the similarity between the words 'cour' a court or courtyard and 'coeur', heart. That of Napoleon plays on the double meaning of the word 'plumeau', either a feather duster or an old has-been.
Lithographs, coloured by hand. E.411, 412-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971) |
| Historical context | In this set the ex-Emperor and Empress are represented as Monsieur and Madame Pipelet, the door-keepers in Eugène Sue's novel Mystères de Paris, whose name has since been adopted for concierges in general. The caricature of Eugénie plays on the similarity between the words cour a court or courtyard and Coeur, heart. That of Napoleon plays on the double meaning of the word plumeau, either a feather duster or an old has-been. |
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| Literary reference | <i>Mystères de Paris</i>, a novel by Eugène Sue. |
| Associated object | E.412-1962 (Set) |
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| Accession number | E.411-1962 |
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| Record created | February 4, 2009 |
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