“I never mutiny so much against France, that I am not perfectly friends with Paris…I love her tenderly, even to her wars and blemishes…But because it is, in truth my own humour, and peradventure not without some excess, I look upon all men as my 

Copied Elaine Urbain, "I never mutiny so much against France, that I am not perfectly friends with Paris...I love her tenderly, even to her wars and blemishes...But because it is, in truth my own humour, and peradventure not without some excess, I look upon all men as my , 1950, glass mounted in plaster mounted in light box, 13 1⁄8 x 10 1⁄8 in. (33.3 x 25.7 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.294

Artwork Details

Title
“I never mutiny so much against France, that I am not perfectly friends with Paris…I love her tenderly, even to her wars and blemishes…But because it is, in truth my own humour, and peradventure not without some excess, I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Polander as a Frenchmen, preferring the universal and common tie to all national ties whatever.” – Michel de Montaigne. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
Artist
Date
1950
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
13 1⁄8 x 10 1⁄8 in. (33.3 x 25.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Container Corporation of America
Mediums
Mediums Description
glass mounted in plaster mounted in light box
Classifications
Subjects
  • Allegory — element — fire
  • Figure — fragment — hand
Object Number
1984.124.294
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1984.124.294