
Edouard de Beaumont
—Comment ça, c’est la Guimard...une fameuse danseuse...mais on ne lui a seulement pas fait de jambes... (—What do you mean, this is Guimard...a famous dancer...but the legs are missing...), published in Le Charivari
c. 1843–66

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Artist
Edouard de Beaumont
(French, 1821–1888)
- Title —Comment ça, c’est la Guimard...une fameuse danseuse...mais on ne lui a seulement pas fait de jambes... (—What do you mean, this is Guimard...a famous dancer...but the legs are missing...), published in Le Charivari
- Date c. 1843–66
- Medium Lithograph
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Dimensions
sheet | 14 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.
- Credit line Gift of Eric G. Carlson in honor of Professor Elizabeth C. Childs, 2000
- Object number WU 2000.0084
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Technique
lithography
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Work type
print
caricature
Battle of Ideal vs. Real: The Figure in Nineteenth-Century Art
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/06/2016 - 07/31/2016
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