OdysseusScyllaCharybdis.1.0010_Daumier

OdysseusScyllaCharybdis.1.0010_Daumier

OGCMA s.v. "Odysseus, Scylla and Charybdis"
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lilly Jacoboson Collection

Honoré Daumier, 1808-1879. “De Charybde en Scylla” (From Charybdis to Scylla). Satirical lithograph. Published in Le Charivari “Actualites”, 20 March 1869.

Political cartoon: In a dingy named “Europe” a regal female (Marianne with mural crown?) rows frantically a rough strait from one cliff (Question Allemande) to another opposite (Question d’Orient). France has a choice between alliances with Germany or with the Ottoman Empire. Dated 20 March 1869 — War between France and Germany (the Franco-Prussian War) began in the next year.

Because Daumier's image of Scylla reduces her to a geological element (from a mythological personage), this item associates the myth of Odysseus less than the myth of Scylla the daughter of Crateis.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/756616

Bibliography

Delteil, Loys. 1906-30 Le Peintre-graveur Illustré. 32 volumes. 29:3699 with illustration.

https://commons.und.edu/uac-all/202/ The Lilly Jacobson Collection of Daumier prints at the University of North Dakota

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.