id: 104091 accession number: 1922.257 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1922.257 updated: 2023-08-31 11:02:24.935000 Souvenir of the Prison ot Ste. Pélagie, 1834. Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879), Aubert. Lithograph; sheet: 29.5 x 21.3 cm (11 5/8 x 8 3/8 in.); image: 24.8 x 18.8 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1922.257 title: Souvenir of the Prison ot Ste. Pélagie title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1834 creation date earliest: 1834 creation date latest: 1834 current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: lithograph department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Daumier Register / Delteil 193 ; Hazard-Delteil 225 --- CREATORS * Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879) - artist Honoré Daumier was eight years old when his father, a glazier and frame maker who had decided to pursue his poetic talents in Paris, sent for the wife and three sons he lad left behind in Marseilles. In Paris Daumier studied drawing with Alexandre Lenoir (1761-1839) and at the Académie Suisse. Around 1825 he began a five-year apprenticeship with the publisher and lithographer Zépherin Belliard (1798-?). The July revolution of 1830, which established Louis-Philippe as the constitutional monarch in France, coincided with Daumier's creation of satirical lithographs aimed at this new government. That same year he joined La Caricature, a political journal founded by the republican artist-publisher, Charles Philipon (1802-1862). Daumier's antimonarchist and liberal subjects that were printed in this paper eventually cost the journal censorship and the artist six months in jail (31 August 1832 to 14 February 1833) plus a 300-franc fine. His prison sentence did not deter him from producing political statements and, in fact, only fueled his rage. The subjects of his lithographs became much more aggressive. In 1835 he worked for Philipon's second publication, Le Charivari, a humorous political newspaper that published Daumier's satirical caricature until it, too, suffered censorship under the new government. Although Daumier may be best known for his graphic art, he was also a sculptor and a prolific painter. Sculpture became another medium to produce his infamous caricatures. His friend, Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and editor of La Caricature, saw in these works the force of Michelangelo. In 1834 Daumier began experimenting with painting, both in oil and watercolor. Apart from his Salon entries of 1849 and 1850, his paintings, which totaled over three hundred, were painted primarily for his own pleasure and virtually unknown to the public until after his death in 1879. * Aubert - publisher --- measurements: Sheet: 29.5 x 21.3 cm (11 5/8 x 8 3/8 in.); Image: 24.8 x 18.8 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.) state of the work: only state edition of the work: support materials: description: beige wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: Lower margin, printed: A Paris, chez Aubert, Galerie Vèro-Dodat / Litho de Benard, r. de l'Abbaye 4 ; in pencil: 629B ; red stamp: R.R. translation: remark: inscription: Below image, printed: SOUVENIR DE STE. PÉLAGIE. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Miscellaneous Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collections opening date: 1924-06-23T04:00:00 Miscellaneous Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 23-October 23, 1924). title: French Art Since Eighteen Hundred opening date: 1929-11-08T05:00:00 French Art Since Eighteen Hundred. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8-December 8, 1929). title: Prints of the Fifteenth to Twentieth Century from the Museum Collection opening date: 1934-06-05T04:00:00 Prints of the Fifteenth to Twentieth Century from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 5-September 12, 1934). title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE FitzRoy Carrington, sold to the Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland OH. date: ?-1922 footnotes: citations: Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1922 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1922- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS “Lists of Objects in the Exhibition.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 9 (1929): 159–75. page number: Mentioned: p. 161 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137248. Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949. Published as: Souvenir de Sainte-Pélagie page number: Mentioned: p. 28 url: https://archive.org/details/Lithography/page/n35 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.257/1922.257_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.257/1922.257_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.257/1922.257_full.tif