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Watch Your Rear ! ! ! !

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NOTE: All Giclee prints on PAPER are printed and cut to exact size. If you would like extra paper around your print please let us know. We can add an extra 1/4" or 1/2" of paper on all sides upon request. This selection does not apply for the stretched canvas or framed products.

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In Watch Your Rear, Eugène Delacroix sends a caricatured man through a landscape with a burden of tools or weapons strapped behind him. His exaggerated long nose gives the profile a comic sharpness, while the equipment adds an awkward extension to the moving body. The figure’s stride connects the face, posture and load within a single ungainly progress.

Dated 1822, the lithograph was printed by Charles Motte. The title draws attention to what lies behind the figure, giving his forward movement an ironic counterpoint. Delacroix’s satire works through bodily exaggeration and the relation between person and burden, making the image lively before every object is individually identified. The print invites a second look at the caricature’s construction, where an altered profile and cumbersome back can together turn a solitary walker into a pointed comic presence.

Read our guide to giclée prints or browse the Eugène Delacroix collection.