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Enfer et damnation! .... sifflée ! ... siflée !... Siiiiflée ! [Hell and damnation!... hissed!... hissed!... Hissssed! ...], from the series Les Bas Bleus
Enfer et damnation! .... sifflée ! ... siflée !... Siiiiflée ! [Hell and damnation!... hissed!... hissed!... Hissssed! ...], from the series Les Bas Bleus

Enfer et damnation! .... sifflée ! ... siflée !... Siiiiflée ! [Hell and damnation!... hissed!... hissed!... Hissssed! ...], from the series Les Bas Bleus

Artist/Maker (French, 1808–1879)
Date1844
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 8 3/4 × 7 1/8 in. (22.2 × 18.1 cm)
Sheet: 14 5/16 × 9 7/8 in. (36.4 × 25.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Frederick B. Artz (OC 1916)
PortfolioLes Bas Bleus (The Bluestockings)
Object number1937.33
Status
Not on view
More Information
This bluestocking is livid because an audience has just hissed during a performance of her play. The female author is often depicted as mannish and ugly. Her intellectual output is just as deformed as her physique.
Exhibition History
Satire and Sympathy: Daumier’s Human Comedy
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 6, 1980 - March 9, 1980 )
The Human Comedy: Chronicles of 19th Century France
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 6, 2013 - December 22, 2013 )
Collections
  • European
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