Man with long pointed nose,ragged clothes,Pierrot,1829-1866,masked figure
Title: Le pierrot je ne sais pas ... Mais la pierrette, pour etre la femme c'est la femme et c'est une canaille. C'est a toi a voir si la vieux cogner ou filer. Moi je cognesais ...
Title Translation: The Pierrot, I don't know ... but the Pierrette, to be a woman is to be a woman and that is really a low life. It is for you to see if it would be better to beat her up or to run away. For my part, I would rather beat her ...
Creator(s): Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866, artist
Date Created/Published: [between ca. 1829 and 1866]
Summary: Drawing of a man with a long, pointed nose, in ragged clothes and a cap, standing behind and to the right of a masked figure, with a pot on his head, perhaps the mime, Pierrot.
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Signed, lower right: Gavarni.
Title inscribed below image.
Title translated: The Pierrot, I don't know ... but the Pierrette, to be a woman is to be a woman and that is really a low life. It is for you to see if it would be better to beat her up or to run away. For my part, I would rather beat her ...
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.1533)
Forms part of: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Pierrot (Fictitious character)--1820-1870.
Relations between the sexes--1820-1870.
Caricatures--French--1820-1870.
Cartoons (Commentary)--French--1820-1870.
Drawings--French--Color--1820-1870.
Bookmark /2009616760/
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