Sujet

Here is the Pleasure, Sirs, Here is the Pleasure, c1860. Creator: Edouard de Beaumont.

Légende

Here is the Pleasure, Sirs, Here is the Pleasure, c1860. Beaumont reveals the antagonism among women of different social classes and generations. The harping old hag shrieks at the young woman, while her words are directed to unseen male patrons. She exposes the demure and properly dressed woman as a "demi-mondaine," hawking her to passersby. The repetition of details makes clear that the jealous crone is a herald of the inevitable fall from grace that awaits the "jolie femme." The knot in the old woman's kerchief mimics the feather that adorns her counterpart's cap. The hag's open collar echoes the other's shawl. The graceful slope of the young woman's shoulders and delicate position of the hands at the waist will eventually give way to the hunched back and defiant gesture of her elder. Beaumont's visual dialogue between the two figures and the crude caption beneath tell a grim story in which the beholder is morally implicated.

Date

1860

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23B16_354

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

57,2Mo (2,5Mo) / 34,2cm x 42,0cm / 4034 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe wealth portrait woman women woman people beauty arts class country French France shouting art continent museum European headdress color ugly defiance elegant beautiful contrast poor poverty wealthy location century affluence concept defiant old woman rags shabby head dress Colour High Class 19th century elderly woman UPPER CLASS nineteenth century hag social class portrait young women young woman Walters Art Museum Heritage Art Edouard de Beaumont Beaumont Edouard de Charles-Edouard de Beaumont Beaumont Charles-Edouard de Beaumont Charles Edouard de Charles Edouard de Beaumont 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing underclass watercolor and graphite heightened with gum on cream moderately-thick smooth wove paper