Honoré Daumier - Qu’est-ce-que ça? (…) - Lithograph - 1858

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Superb original print, full margins, on thin vellum, Slightly oxidized. With autograph certificate of circulation black written in ink, dated … Read more Superb original print, full margins, on thin vellum, Slightly oxidized. With autograph certificate of circulation black written in ink, dated (Paris, June 8th, 1858) and signed by the lithographer Destouches on the lower margin. With minor aging sings, this flat is in very good overall condition. Honoré-Victorin Daumier (Marseille, 1808 - Valmondois 1879) The French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, through His artworks, 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 still appreciated 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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