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View at the museum ↗The Visitation Dinner, illustration for The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Lovis Corinthc. 1907
- Attribution
- Lovis Corinth German, 1858-1925
- Medium
- Brush and black ink, gray wash, and white gouache, with graphite, on white wove paper
- Physical dimensions
- 25.1 × 34.4 cm (9 15/16 × 13 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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This drawing, reproduced in the 1908 edition of the English writer Laurence Sterne’s novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , highlights Corinth’s use of satire to comment on both religion and human folly. Here, the title character, who was mistakenly baptized with the name Tristram , wishes to see if it can be changed. Just as the debate begins, a hot chestnut falls into the lap of the man in profile on the right. His mouth opens in pain, as his right hand grips the back of his chair, with a slapstick humor that seems to emulate the work of the English artist William Hogarth.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0