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Garnier Pagès rentrant dans la vie privée

Print
1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Lemaine & Fils (printer)
M.E (caricaturist)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Satirical print in which Louis Antoine Gamier-Pagès places a large white collar under a glass shade. 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

Categories
Caricatures & Cartoons
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleGarnier Pagès rentrant dans la vie privée (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Garnier Pagès rentrant dans la vie privée'. Satirical illustration by M.E. in which Louis Antoine Gamier-Pagès places a large white collar under a glass shade. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1871.
Physical description
Satirical print in which Louis Antoine Gamier-Pagès places a large white collar under a glass shade. 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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 25.4cm
  • Width: 20.3cm
Dimensions from: Lambert, Susan. The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71. catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1971.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Garnier Pagès rentrant dans la vie privée Lith. Lemaine et Fils, 61, r. de Clery En Vente chez Duclaux, 21, Pl, d. Château-d' Eau Dépot chez Madre, 20, r, du Croissant Salut à mon dernier faux-col!' (Lettered)
  • 'ME' (Signed with monogram)
Gallery label
(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
M E
Signed with monogram ME. Lettered Lith. Lemaine et Fils, 61, r. de Clery En Vente chez Duclaux, 21, Pl, d. Château-d' Eau Dépot chez Madre, 20, r, du Croissant.

Louis Antoine Gamier-Pagès supported the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 and took a leading part in the Republican opposition under the Empire. He was a member of the Government of National Defence but failed to secure election to the National Assembly in 1871. This caricature is inspired by an incident which took place on 31 October when the old republican was imprisoned along with his colleagues in the Hôtel de Ville. After being rudely interrupted as he reminisced to the mob he was rumoured to have declared hysterically 'I am going home, to my family; and to-morrow I shall no longer take any part in politics'. He is shown placing the enormous white collar he affected under a glass dome, a gesture symbolic of his withdrawal from public life.

Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.1220-1962
Subjects depicted
Man
Table (Support Furniture)
Bands (Collars)
Bell Jar
Garnier-Pagès, Louis-Antoine
Bibliographic references
  • Lambert, Susan, The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71: catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, V&A, 1971
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1220-1962

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Record createdFebruary 4, 2009
Record URL
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