Menu du réveillon offert aux amis du Théâtre Antoine

late 1890s

Henri-Gabriel Ibels

Associated Names
Henri-Gabriel Ibels

Artist, French, 1867 - 1936

This is a drawing of a person wearing robes and a pig seated on the floor, with a handwritten menu. The drawing features a robed figure on the right, facing a pig on the left side of the image. The person is depicted in a loose, flowing robe looking downward toward the pig. The pig is drawn with its back to the viewer. In the middle of the image is a handwritten menu titled "MENU DU RÉVEILLON offert aux amis du Théatre Antoine," offering various dishes and beverages. The image contains an inscription at the top right reading "L'ESPRIT DE SACRIFICE" and a note written in French resembling a conversation at the bottom left. The drawing has a humorous and satirical tone.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in brown on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Atlas Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 29.6 x 23 cm (11 5/8 x 9 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1995.76.43

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rodolphe Darzens, Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Atlas, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1998

  • Boyer, Patricia. Artists and the Avant-Garde Theater in Paris 1887-1900. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Academy Museum, New York, 1998-1999, no. 65.

Inscriptions

lower right in stone: H G. Ibels; upper left in stone: MENU / DU RÉVEILLON / offert aux amis / du théatre ANTOINE...; lower right printed: Imp. Eugène Verneau.Paris

Wikidata ID

Q75395670

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