BM13436-the-french-artist-1819-0019
identifier:
BM13436-the-french-artist-1819-0019
title:
The French Artist
date:
January 10, 1819
description:
The artist, in tatters and partly covered by a cape, sits at an easel, painting a picture of Danae receiving the shower of gold. A cravat is hung over the corner of his canvas. He is unshaven and smiles with eager satisfaction. The room is a boarded garret, with a door heavily barred against bill collectors; through an opening cut in it a hand appears holding a sheaf of "Memoires a Payer". An emaciated dog barks at the hand. Hanging from the easel are a bag-wig, sword, and ruffles, while on the windowsill a skull serves as a stand for a laced and feathered hat. Studies of reclining nudes are drawn on the wall along with a Venus and Cupid, an eye, a profile, etc. Against the wall is a horizontally suspended long-stemmed pipe. In front of it is a trestle-table with a coat, misshapen top-boot stuffed with straw, etc. The other boot is worn by the artist, with his bare foot projecting from it. On the floor lie books and beside them are a broken candle in a bottle, a bunch of flowers in a chamber-pot, a shaving-bowl and razor. Books, two heads from the antique, and portfolios stand against the wall. Source: George.
description:
British Museum #13436
format:
22 cm x 18.4 cm
type:
Paper
type:
Etching, hand-colored
coverage:
London, England
relation:
LUCA2017.47 1819
subject:
Satire
subject:
Painters
subject:
Artists
subject:
Frenchmen
subject:
Satire
subject:
Great Britain
creator:
Cruikshank, George
relation:
Michalak Collection
source:
Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
