File:Gare derrière !!! (Watch your rear !!!) (BM 1987,0516.39).jpg

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Gare derrière !!! (Watch your rear !!!)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Eugène Delacroix

Printed by: Charles Motte
Title
Gare derrière !!! (Watch your rear !!!)
Description
English: Satire on censorship; to the right, an angry uniformed ogre-like figure (a policeman or National Guard) with waxed moustache, his eyes bulging, raises his sabre in his right hand to attack a rocky outcrop to the left; further back two frightened figures peer out from behind a mountain shaped as an éteignoir (candle-snuffer) or pain de sucre - identifying it as a symbol of censorship; published in 'Le Miroir' on 30 May 1822
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Date 1822
date QS:P571,+1822-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 239 millimetres (image)
Width: 309 millimetres (image)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1987,0516.39
Notes This was Delacroix's last satire for 'Le Miroir'. The uniformed figure, according to the account in 'Le Miroir' was called 'De Monts-Coupés' who, on his travels, attacked the mountains blocking the paths. He gave this up after breaking his sabre against a high mountain in America, named 'Peuple-Geant'. The scene shows his great exploit - he cut down the 'Fantôme' [Ghost], a very high mountain near Mississipi, and in the same stroke, smote thirty thousand soldiers who had not fled at the cry: 'gare arrière'. The reference to censorship is said to be indicated by the candle-snuffer shape of the mountain, the name of the central figure - easily read as 'De mots coupés' (cut words) - an emissary of the police authorities who executed the verdict of the censors, and the name of the mountain ('Fantôme'), a reference to the censor's excessive and often imaginary fears. For the analysis of this satire, see Nina Maria Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, 'Eugène Delacroix, Prints, Politics and Satire, 1814-1822', New Haven and London, 1991, pp. 71-72.
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