Les FILETS DE VULCAIN. Ce vilain serrurier sachant que son épouse Parlait à Mars d'un peu trop près, Forgea d'impitoyables rets, Et les pinça tout deux jasant sur la pelouse. (Un célibataire D.M.F.P.)

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

Vulcan (Mars) uses his net to catch his wife and Mars, who are nestled together in the bushes. The Tobu Museum has a print with a new state, not listed by Delteil. We are describing it here as 5th state. 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.