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Le Compliment, ou La Matinee du Jour de L'an, Dediee aux Peres de Famille [The Compliment, or New Year's Morning, Dedicated to the Fathers of the Family]
Le Compliment, ou La Matinee du Jour de L'an, Dediee aux Peres de Famille [The Compliment, or New Year's Morning, Dedicated to the Fathers of the Family]

Le Compliment, ou La Matinee du Jour de L'an, Dediee aux Peres de Famille [The Compliment, or New Year's Morning, Dedicated to the Fathers of the Family]

Artist (French, 1755 – 1832)
Date1787
Period18th century
MediumColor aquatint on paper
DimensionsMat Size: 22 x 28
Object Size: 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches
Credit LinePurchase
Object number1977.084
Curatorial DepartmentEuropean Art (pre 1900)
_Place of OriginFrance
Photo: May Mantell, Vermont, 2013
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“Ou peut on être mieux (bis) “Qu’au sein de sa famille….” Ces trois artistes se trouveraient mieux a sein de cabaret, et leur jeune associé au sein d’une partie de billes. [“Where can one be happier (bis) than in the bosom of the family?” These three artists would be better off in the bosom of the cabaret, and their young associate at a game of marbles.]
from the series Les Musiciens de Paris, number 5, published in Le Charivari
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African Elephant Running
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La femme aux paupières peintes prête ses formes rondes aux dures lames de l'herbe [The Woman with Painted Eyelids Lends Her Round Forms to the Hard Blades of the Grass] from the portfolio L'Enchantement de l'été [The Enchantment of Summer]
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Object number: 1979.008
Las camas de la muerte [The beds of death], Plate 62, from Los Desastres de la Guerra [The Disasters of War]
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La Garde-Malade. Décidément, il n’y a que les fruitières pour vous procurer de belles connaissances. Un épileptique, un hydrophobe et une folle!….. si l’épicier pouvait me faire avoir avec ça la maladie de poitrine qu’il m’a promise, c’est ça qui me ferait joliment du bien!
[The Nurse. No question, the fruit vendors are the only ones who introduce you to interesting cases… an epileptic, a hydrophobic, and a lunatic!… And if the vendor could get me that case of tuberculosis he promised, it would really do me some good!]
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Comment on donne aux jeunes gens le goût de la navigation.
[How to introduce youngsters to the joys of navigation.]
from the series Les Papas, number 3, published in Le Charivari
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