Satire on censorship and the royalist press, two of the pillars of ultra opinion; a race at longchamps with, in the distance, riders on horses moving along the champs-élysées towards the (unfinished) étoile arch, while in the foreground a deviation from the race by two odd carriages each pulled by a crayfish going backwards (facing the opposite direction from their riders): in the centre, one of these carriages bears a group comprising wigged men in uniform ('voltigeurs' identified by 'le miroir' as press censors and academicians) and a woman in outdated dress ('la quotidienne'), one of whom has a speech bubble with the motto of the order of the crayfish "en arrière, marche!!!", while behind them, to the left, a smaller carriage flying the banner with the scissors of censorship and bearing the 'éteignoir' (candle-snuffer)-shaped or 'pain de sucre' (sugar-loaf) figure of the censor marie-joseph pain on a chair (the censor lachaize); in the foreground to left, two bystanders, one (possibly delacroix himself) blowing a whistle at the at the two carriages; published in 'le miroir', 4th april 1822 lithograph. Date: 1822. Dimensions: Sheet: 8 7/16 x 12 1/8 in. (21.5 x 30.8 cm). Medium: lithograph. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Eugène Delacroix, The Crayfish at Longchamps, 1822
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