Honoré Daumier - Le Retour à Paris - Lithograph - 1852

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Return to paris is the b / w flat lithographers (n.15) from the satirical print series ''the pleasure train'' composed … Read more Return to paris is the b / w flat lithographers (n.15) from the satirical print series ''the pleasure train'' composed of caricatures ''morals'' (of behaviors) realized by honoré daumier (france, 1808-1879 ). Published by the house martinet, paris, this flat appeared on the french periodical, le charivari, on september 28th, 1852. Printed by the lithographer charles trinocq. Reference: h. Delteil reasoned catalog, 2339. Registration: monogrammed on stone, h.d, 441 \. Complete caption: the return to paris -two nights without sleep a wink! \. Lumbago and a head cold \. More often still catch me catch a train of fun! superb print, full margins, depicting an amusing szene of a sitting torque tired because of a train travel, is in excellent condition with imperceptible aging signs (light redness and some traces of oxidation on the margins). Honoré-victorin daumier (marseille, 1808 - valmondois 1879) the french painter, sculptor, and printmaker, best-known as the ''michelangelo of the cartoons'', honoré daumier, offers us commentary on the social and political life in france, from the revolution of 1830 to the fall of the second napoleonic empire in 1870. Caricatures and cartoons of political figures satirizing the behavior de son countrymen in newspapers and periodicals was his hand activity, for qui est devenu he popular in his lifetime and is remembered and appreciate still today. He was a republican democrat targets whose were the bourgeoisie, the church, lawyers and the judiciary, politicians, and the monarchy. His talented and satiric pencil had a very high cost is his life: he was jailed for months in 1832 several partner after the publication of offensive gargantua because of a depiction of king louis philippe. Charles baudelaire noticed the daumier's production and greatly admired his paintings, qui were to-have an impact was younger generation of impressionist and post impressionist painters. Later generations-have come to recognize daumier as one of the great french artists of the 19th century. Prolific artist daumier was that produced more than 100 sculptures, 500 paintings, 1000 drawings, 1000 wood engravings, lithographs and 4000. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
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