Les ÉCURIES D'AUGIAS. Se faire recureur, pour un héros superbe, C'est par Hercule, un goût difficile à chanter. Mais comme le dit un proverbe: D'ÉGOUTS et des couleurs on ne peut disputer. Calembourg inédit de Mr. Delessert.

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

Hercules is displeased because he has to clean the stables of Augeas. 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.