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Ecce homo!   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Auguste Bouquet

After: Rembrandt
Printed by: Becquet
Published by: Aubert
Title
Ecce homo!
Description
English: Number 239: Satire depicting a Louis Philippe as a prisoner, presented for ridicule to the public; the naked king stands exposed on a balcony above a crowd, hands behind his back, holding a hat with cockade and clyster; he is flanked by two men personnifying the publications 'La Caricature' (at left) and 'Le Corsaire' (at right); the leering face of 'La Caricature' appears menacingly, holding a large lithographic crayon, at left; the hatted brigand of 'Le Corsaire' grasps the king's shoulder, at right; the stone balcony has a balustrade of pears; below, on the ground, spectators crowded around, looking upwards; a plaque hung on the balcony at centre with the initials: 'L.P.R.J.'; after Rembrandt; published in 'La Caricature', no. 115 (17 January 1833). 1832
Lithograph
Depicted people Representation of: Louis Philippe, King of the French
Date 1832
date QS:P571,+1832-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 187 millimetres (sheet)
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1989,0128.33
Notes

At the time this lithograph was published, the government was becoming increasingly conservative, leaving no doubt that Louis Philippe had abandoned his professed liberal and republican sympathies and betrayed the public trust. This image of the king presented for ridicule by the people, to whom he was accountable, seemed well timed. The naked king exposed on the balcony holds a clyster, which he had once used against them, and is now being directed against him. Conflating the meaning of the syringe (clyster) as both enema and phallus, the image implies an even more obscene form of humiliation - that of sodomy. Bouquet's central placement of the king is confrontational, thrusting the image of Louis Philipe upon the eye of the beholder. The king holds his clyster (replacing his umbrella) and hat with cockade, the back of his head with its toupee outlined against a white cloth (perhaps the flat of the Bourbons).

[From 'The Pear: French Graphic Arts in the Golden Age of Caricature' by E. K. Kenny and J. M. Merriman (Massachusetts, 1991), p. 94-5, No. 52)]
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1989-0128-33
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