id: 107013
accession number: 1925.1010
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Ancient History: Apelles and Campaste, 1842. Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879), Aubert. Lithograph; sheet: 32.4 x 26 cm (12 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.); image: 24 x 19.9 cm (9 7/16 x 7 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1925.1010
title: Apelles and Campaste
title in original language:
series: Ancient History
series in original language:
creation date: 1842
creation date earliest: 1842
creation date latest: 1842
current location:
creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
copyright:
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: lithograph
department: Prints
collection: PR - Lithograph
type: Print
find spot:
catalogue raisonne: Daumier Register / Delteil 960; Hazard-Delteil 1936
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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
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measurements: Sheet: 32.4 x 26 cm (12 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.); Image: 24 x 19.9 cm (9 7/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
state of the work: I/III before letters
edition of the work:
support materials:
description: cream wove paper
watermarks:
inscriptions:
inscription: Upper margin, in pencil: D. 1936 / I / Rare ;
Lower margin, in pencil: Histoire Ancienne Pl 36 / Apelles - Campaste
translation:
remark:
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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: Humor in Prints
opening date: 1934-09-13T04:00:00
Humor in Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 13-October 28, 1934).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Maurice Le Garrec, sold to Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?-1925
footnotes:
citations:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH
date: 1925-
footnotes:
citations:
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RELATED WORKS
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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.
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IMAGES
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