La COLÈRE D'AGAMEMNON. En vain le Rois des Rois épuisant sa rage Ses jurons de troupiers qu'ici nous abrégeons. Achille restait sourd et cloué sur la plage Pleurant sa Briséis en pèchant des goujons. Iliade. Traduction libre de Mr. Vatout. Translation:

Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M. · 1842

This lithograph shows a carved stone of Agamemnon is yelling in anger in front of his chariot. The rage of Agamemnon did not hinder Achilles from pursuing his favorite pastime, fishing. During the 1840's, a quarrel between painters of the classic and romantic schools had fully flared up. Delacroix asked the "loaded" question: "Who is going to liberate us from the old Greeks?" Daumier succeeded to answer it his own way by showing historic personalities such as Hercules, Pygmalion or Agamemnon in absurd situations.