File:Eugène Delacroix, The Crayfish at Longchamps, 1822.jpg

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Eugène Delacroix: English: The Crayfish at LongchampsFrançais : Les écrevisses à Longchamps   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Eugène Delacroix  (1798–1863)  wikidata:Q33477 s:fr:Auteur:Eugène Delacroix q:en:Eugène Delacroix
 
Eugène Delacroix
Alternative names
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix
Description French painter, drawer, aquarellist and photographer
Date of birth/death 26 April 1798 Edit this at Wikidata 13 August 1863 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Charenton-Saint-Maurice Paris
Work period 1815 Edit this at Wikidata–1863 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q33477
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Charles Motte
Title
English: The Crayfish at Longchamps
Français : Les écrevisses à Longchamps
Description
English: Satire on censorship and the royalist press, two of the pillars of Ultra opinion; a race at Longchamps with, in the distance, riders on horses moving along the Champs-Élysées towards the (unfinished) Étoile arch, while in the foreground a deviation from the race by two odd carriages each pulled by a crayfish going backwards (facing the opposite direction from their riders): in the centre, one of these carriages bears a group comprising wigged men in uniform ('voltigeurs' identified by 'Le Miroir' as press censors and Academicians) and a woman in outdated dress ('La Quotidienne'), one of whom has a speech bubble with the motto of the Order of the Crayfish "En arrière, marche!!!", while behind them, to the left, a smaller carriage flying the banner with the scissors of censorship and bearing the 'éteignoir' (candle-snuffer)-shaped or 'pain de sucre' (sugar-loaf) figure of the censor Marie-Joseph Pain on a chair (the censor Lachaize); in the foreground to left, two bystanders, one (possibly Delacroix himself) blowing a whistle at the at the two carriages; published in 'Le Miroir', 4th April 1822 Lithograph.
Date 1822
date QS:P571,+1822-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Lithograph; second state
Dimensions Sheet: 8 7/16 x 12 1/8 in. (21.5 x 30.8 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
58.512.10
Credit line The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1958
Inscriptions In plate: "En arrière marche!!!"
bottom: "Litho. de C. Motte, R. des marais."... "Les Ecrevisses à Longchamps"
References British Museum
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: entry 337327

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