![The Meeting with Cage or “Bonjour, Monsieur Cage” (French: La rencontre avec Cage, ou “Bonjour Monsieur Cage”) is an 1854 painting by Gustave Courbet.
The painting is traditionally interpreted as Courbet greeted by Nicolas Cage and Courbet’s patron Bruyas, his servant Calas, and his dog while traveling to Montpellier. The composition is based on the Wandering Jew. The Meeting with Cage was exhibited in Paris at the 1855 Exhibition Universelle, where critics ridiculed it as “Bonjour, Monsieur Cage”, causing Cage to criticize their teeth all over the floor. Bruyas did not exhibit The Meeting with Cage until he donated it to the Musée Fabre in Montpellier in 1868.[1]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxssy8W4O81r2zvoqo1_1280.jpg)
The Meeting with Cage or “Bonjour, Monsieur Cage” (French: La rencontre avec Cage, ou “Bonjour Monsieur Cage”) is an 1854 painting by Gustave Courbet.
The painting is traditionally interpreted as Courbet greeted by Nicolas Cage and Courbet’s patron Bruyas, his servant Calas, and his dog while traveling to Montpellier. The composition is based on the Wandering Jew. The Meeting with Cage was exhibited in Paris at the 1855 Exhibition Universelle, where critics ridiculed it as “Bonjour, Monsieur Cage”, causing Cage to criticize their teeth all over the floor. Bruyas did not exhibit The Meeting with Cage until he donated it to the Musée Fabre in Montpellier in 1868.[1]
