Nationality
French
Artist Dates
1808-1879
Title of Work
Oui! Ma petite, voilà plus de 3 semaines qu’il n’est rien entré dans son pauvre corps à ce cher homme ...
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Date of Work
1838
Medium
Lithograph
Signature
Initialed in the lithographic stone.
Identification #
2016.001.0631
Collection/Provenance
University Art Collections: Lilly Jacobson Collection, Art & Design Dept.
Status
Stored: R31
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
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: Croquis D'Expressions
Published in Le Charivari
Original text: Oui ! ma petite, voilà plus de 3 semaines qu’il n’est rien entré dans son pauvre corps à ce cher homme !...... – Je viens de lui faire une bonne petite soupe de choux au lard qu’il aime tant pour le ravigoter avec quelques pommes de terre que s’il fallait croire les médecins on serait bientôt mort de faim avec leur diète………
Daumier’s subject involves two women discussing the home care they are providing for a seriously ill man. Against his doctor’s advice, which one of the women says would lead to his death from hunger, he has been prepared a meal he appears much too ill to consume.
Included in Honoré Daumier III: Law, Medicine, and Social Satire exhibition, 2018.
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