Nationality
French
Artist Dates
1808-1879
Title of Work
Preview
Date of Work
1834
Medium
Sur blanc
Signature
Initialed in the lithographic stone.
Identification #
2016.001.0154
Collection/Provenance
University Art Collections: Lilly Jacobson Collection, Art & Design Dept.
Status
Displayed: Second Floor, near the Fredrikson & Byron Law Firm Office suite
Location
UND School of Law
Additional Information
Series: La Caricature
Published in La Cariacture
Original text: Le passé. Le présent. L'Avenir.
Although Daumier’s scathing caricature of King Louis Philippe as the giant Gargantua had led to the artist being briefly imprisoned in 1832, he continued to attack the king in his lithographs (that is, until the passage of hasher censorship laws would eventually stop him).
The pear-shaped head the 1834 lithograph echoes Louis Philippe’s pear-shaped body in Daumier’s other works from the same period. The king’s three faces progress in degrees of ugliness from left to right. The message is that his oppressive leadership gets worse as time goes on.
Included in the Honoré Daumier III: Law, Medicine, and Social Satire exhibition, 2018.
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