Nationality
French
Artist Dates
1808-1879
Title of Work
Preview
Date of Work
1851
Medium
Lithograph
Signature
initialed in the lithographic stone.
Collection/Provenance
University Art Collections: Lilly Jacobson Collection, Art & Design Dept.
Status
Displayed
Location
UND Art Collections Gallery at the Empire Arts Center
Additional Information
Series: Actualités
Published in Le Charivari
Original text: UN LUTTEUR MALHEUREUX. Voyons, mon ami Léon, avalez-moi ça... c'est du baume d'Argenteuil... ça m'a toujours réussi toutes les fois qu'un de mes hommes a eu l'imprudence de se séparer de mon escouade et a reçu quelqu'affreux renfoncement!... une autre fois, faudra pas vous aventurer tout seul contre la majorité!
In this print, Ratapoil, a fictitious character who Daumier created, offers “balm” to soothe injuries of an emaciated fighter. The beaten man was a real French politician, Léon Léonard Joseph Faucher (1803-1854), whose effort to change France’s Constitution had recently failed to get enough votes to pass in the French Parliament.
Included in the Honoré Daumier III: Law, Medicine, and Social Satire exhibition, 2018.