Nationality
French
Artist Dates
1808-1879
Preview
Date of Work
1838
Medium
Lithograph
Signature
Initialed in the lithographic stone.
Identification #
2016.001.0616
Collection/Provenance
Gift from the estate of Lilly Jacobson.
Art & Design Study Collection
Status
Stored: Lilly Jacobson Collection Box 10
Location
UND Art Collections Office, Hughes Fine Arts Center
Artist Bio
Honoré Daumier was a prolific painter, printmaker and caricaturist born in 1808 in Marseille, France. In 1822 Daumier studied under Alexandre Lenoir, an artist and archaeologist that was dedicated to saving French monuments during the French Revolution. One year later he went on to attend the Académie Suisse. His works are best known for commenting and critiquing on the 19th century social and political life in France. Honoré Daumier's works can be found at the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Rijksmuseum, and several other prominent collections internationally. The University of North Dakota holds more than 1600 works by Daumier, the vast majority of which are part of the Lilly Jacobson Collection, which can be accessed here: https://commons.und.edu/daumier-prints/.
Aside from making powerful politically-charged images that reflected his pro-republican views, Daumier satirized lawyers, doctors, businessmen, professors, and lifestyles of the bourgeoisie. Although the inscriptions that accompany Daumier’s lithographs were not written by him, one might assume they mostly conveyed the spirit of the artist’s intent behind his images.
Additional Information
Series: Album Caricaturana
Published in Le Charivari
Original text: Une autre fois je fis encore un bon tour…… j’avais créé une société au capital de dix millions pour l’exploitation des tiges de bottes en carton….. je n’avais placé que huit actions représentant 1200 malheureux francs….. j’assemble mes huit actionnaires ! et je leur tient à peu près ce langage. Eh ! bonjour Messieurs les badeaux, Que vous êtes jolis, que vous me semblez beaux ! Je leur promets plus de fromage que de pain, je leur distribue un dividende de 50/00 je les chauffe un peu, et je laisse mijoter……. le lendemain on s’arrachait mes actions, je les place toutes et à la réunion suivante je dis: Dans le dernier compte, je me suis trompé, j’avais oublié le prix du carton et la façon, vous me redevez le dividende distribué, je vais le retenir……… je posai zéro et je retint le reste. Ah ! ah ! ah! ah (fait Bertrand) – hi! hi! hi! hi! (fait Wormspire.)
Rights
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