Art Institute of Chicago
Plate Two from Misery
Charles Rambert (French, active 1836–1867)
- Date
- 1851
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on cream China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
The text on this print translates as, “She is in power, already she bends man under her irony, forever forbids him to sing and shows him the sole purpose of his life; the bread he must tear from her.”
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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