Description
Comic combatants oppose one another with long weapons across a doorway in this polemical duel, their exaggerated forms joined by printed captions. Eugène Delacroix transforms rivalry between the Quotidienne and Journal de Paris into a bodily, theatrical duel. The scene makes a dispute of the press visible through caricature, allowing the distance between argument and pictured combat to become the encounter’s satirical focus.
The 1821 lithograph mocks the conservative press through this staged contest between the Quotidienne and the Journal de Paris. Its interest lies in the distance between the real medium of argument and the pictured form of a joust, where a quarrel of words acquires a visible body. The print preserves that satirical encounter in a lasting graphic form, allowing the comparison to remain central to the scene.
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