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It’s very odd – my wife was supposed to dine at Madame Coquardeau’s but only the children were there
(C'est bien drôle que ma femme devait diner chez Maman Coquardeau et que ne j'y trouve que les petits.....c'est bien drôle!)
(1841)
from the Fourberies des femmes (The deceit of women) series, 2nd series
Medium
lithograph
Measurements
19.8 × 15.6 cm (image) 26.4 × 19.8 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1930
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
In his popular satirical series The Deceit of Women, Paul Gavarni depicts various acts of trickery committed by women against men. In this print, a husband discovers that his wife has surreptitiously abandoned her motherly duties, leaving their children in the care of another woman while she enjoys a night of freedom. While the series could be read as critical of women, it also subtly questions the rigidity of mid nineteenth–century gender roles. Gavarni highlights the lengths women had to go to navigate their restrictive social circumstances and ridicules men for their obliviousness to these deceptions.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Armelhault & Bocher 281 iii
Edition
3rd of 4 states
Printing/Publishing
printed by Aubert et Cie; published by Bauger et Cie, (Paris)
Inscription
printed in ink u.c.: FOURBERIES DE FEMMES. / En matière de sentiment / 2e Série
printed in ink u.r.: 45.
printed in ink l.l.: C'est bien drôle que ma femme devait diner chez Maman Coquardeau et que ne j'y / trouve que les petits.....c'est bien drôle!
printed in ink l.c.: Par Gavarni
printed in ink l.r.: Imp. d'Aubert, & C.ie
Accession Number
4363-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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