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Mars et Vénus. Dans ce traquenard érotique En voyant les amans, tous les dieux furent pris De ce fameux rire homérique, Reservé depuis lors aux malheureux maris. (Quatrain familier de M. A***.....)
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M. · 1842
Mars and Venus are caught in a net. A group of gods are laughing at them. During this time, 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.
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