Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-1879
The Past, the Present, the Future, plate 349
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Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-18791834
The Past, the Present, the Future, plate 349
Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879 →lithographprint
Date
1834
Medium
Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.6 × 19.5 cm (8 9/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Sheet: 35.7 × 27 cm (14 1/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Albert H. Wolf Memorial Collection
Honoré Victorin Daumier’s caricatures of French King Louis-Philippe (reigned 1830–1848) used satire as a form of political critique. This print, published in the satirical journal La Caricature in 1834, depicts the king with an exaggerated pear-shaped head and three faces, reflecting the sharp shift in public opinion of the king—from inspiring hope at his coronation to inciting despair once his reign took hold. Daumier’s caricatures did get him into trouble: his earlier print, Gargantua, an even more biting critique of the monarchy’s gluttonous economic policies, resulted in the artist and his publisher Charles Philipon being sentenced to six months in jail in 1832.
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