id: 106785 accession number: 1924.809 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.809 updated: 2024-08-08 15:12:49.084000 Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834, 1834. Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879). Lithograph; sheet: 36.5 x 55 cm (14 3/8 x 21 5/8 in.); image: 28.6 x 44 cm (11 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ralph King 1924.809 title: Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834 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 Ralph King copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: lithograph department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Daumier Register / Delteil 135 ; Hazard-Delteil 310 --- 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. --- measurements: Sheet: 36.5 x 55 cm (14 3/8 x 21 5/8 in.); Image: 28.6 x 44 cm (11 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.) state of the work: only state edition of the work: support materials: description: chine colle on cream wove support watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: Below image: RUE TRANSNONAIN, LE 15 AVRIL 1834. translation: remark: inscription: Upper margin, printed: 24e Dessin de la Lithographie Mensuelle. ; lower margin, printed: Au bureau, galerie vero dodat. / Litho de Delaunois ; lower margin, in pencil: Superb proof on india / 450 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Urban Vicissitudes opening date: 1985-07-02T04:00:00 Urban Vicissitudes. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-September 29, 1985). title: Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints opening date: 2001-08-26T00:00:00 Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Ralph King [1855-1926], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: ?-1924 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1924- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Freedman, Leonard, and Gibson A. Danes. Looking at Modern Painting. New York: Norton, 1961. page number: p. 45 url: “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: Rue Transnonain, Le 15 Avril 1834 page number: Mentioned: p. 27 url: https://archive.org/details/Lithography/page/n34 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.809/1924.809_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.809/1924.809_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.809/1924.809_full.tif