Sappho's Death. “Young ladies, you see where love leads us Under our feet so dainty and small The wretched chasm of an abyss Into which we eventually fall,” plate 49 from Histoire Ancienne
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- Title
- Sappho's Death. “Young ladies, you see where love leads us Under our feet so dainty and small The wretched chasm of an abyss Into which we eventually fall,” plate 49 from Histoire Ancienne
- Description
- "Daumier’s 50-print series Stories from Antiquity appeared in Charivari over about a year. The Greek poet Sappho is said to have killed herself over a love affair, though specific details of her death are scant. Here Daumier added a helpful Cupid to nudge the unhinged but indecisive figure over the edge, while Charivari writers supplied verses significantly less artful than Sappho’s: Young ladies, you see where love leads us Under our feet so dainty and small The wretched chasm of an abyss Into which we eventually fall." - The Art Insitute of Chicago
- Call Number (click link to view in library catalog)
- 1948.406
- Authors
- Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
- Date
- 1843
- From the Exhibit
- Sappho's Literary Legacies and Afterlives:Δ. ̓Ερμηνεία και Λήψη, Interpretation and Reception
- Location
- France
- Rights
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- Type
- still image
- Medium
- art reproduction
- Bibliographic Citation
- Daumier, Honoré Victorin. Sappho’s Death. “Young ladies, you see where love leads us Under our feet so dainty and small The wretched chasm of an abyss Into which we eventually fall,” plate 49 from Histoire Ancienne. 1843. Facsimile. Image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.