picture by Daumier; a huckster is telling the crowd to “ Here you see the great celebrities of literary, musical, and artistic France; they are thirty-six feet tall measured below sea level ” , the celebrities in question are, left to right, someone wearing the Journal des Debats like a cape, with a Phrygian cap; a man I can’t idenity; Victor Hugo, on a throne surrounded by books ;a musician wrapped up in giant sheet music; and a guy with a Napoleon-style hat holding a signboard advertising “Jeanne Grey”, “Les enfants d’Edouard”, and “Cromwell”. The full French text under the picture is:
Vous voyez ici les grandes celebrites de la France litteraire, musicale et artistique, ils ont tous 36 pieds au dessous du nivou (?) de la mer”
from the Met museum!