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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
  • 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

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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