File:Entre deux seaux (Between two buckets) (BM 1999,0627.94).jpg
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Entre deux seaux (Between two buckets)
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Entre deux seaux (Between two buckets) |
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English: A satire on the 'élections législatives' (general elections) of 1869 showing a man wearing a night cap with donkey's ears and holding a ballot, standing between two pails, one filled with clear water, the other with red wine. 1869
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| Date | 1869 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1999,0627.94 |
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| Notes |
The print shows the elector wearing a cap with donkey's ears hesitating between two buckets; this is a reference to the paradox known as Buridan's ass, where the donkey is placed between a stack of hay and a pail of water and cannot make up its mind as to which one to choose, and eventually dies. The title of the print is a pun on the expression 'entre deux eaux' (which means to hesitate between two things), while the word 'seaux' could also be interpreted as a pun on the phonetically identical 'sot' (meaning ass, idiot). The 'rédacteur en chef' mentioned in the penciled inscription is Clément Duvernois (1836-1879), editor in chief of 'Le Peuple' from 1869, and later Minister of Agriculture and Trade. The inscription states that the lithograph was commissioned for the General Election in 1868 (probably a typo; the General Election was held in 1869) but that it was not authorised. The General Election of 1869 saw a surge of the republican opposition against the bonapartists. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1999-0627-94 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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