id: 107448
accession number: 1925.15
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.15
updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:02.930000
News of the Day: Trust me! Take my arm..., 1866. Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879), Destouches, Arnaud de Vresse. Lithograph; sheet: 31.2 x 25.4 cm (12 5/16 x 10 in.); image: 26 x 21.4 cm (10 1/4 x 8 7/16 in.); secondary support: 33.6 x 28 cm (13 1/4 x 11 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Philip Hofer 1925.15
title: Trust me! Take my arm...
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series: News of the Day
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creation date: 1866
creation date earliest: 1866
creation date latest: 1866
current location:
creditline: Gift of Philip Hofer
copyright:
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: lithograph
department: Prints
collection: PR - Lithograph
type: Print
find spot:
catalogue raisonne: Daumier Register 3960 ; Hazard-Delteil 3279 ; Provost Delteil 3522bis
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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.
* Destouches - printer
* Arnaud de Vresse - publisher
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measurements: Sheet: 31.2 x 25.4 cm (12 5/16 x 10 in.); Image: 26 x 21.4 cm (10 1/4 x 8 7/16 in.); Secondary Support: 33.6 x 28 cm (13 1/4 x 11 in.)
state of the work: II/III
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support materials:
description: cream wove paper
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inscriptions:
inscription: Lower margin, in brown ink: - Croyez moi! prenez mon bras. Après avoir été enchainée si longtemps, vous / asuirez? [crossed out] ne seriez pas assez forte pour marcher seule. ;
Lower left corner, red stamp ; in ink: E ; in pencil: 2398/sea/300 / 3279 RRR
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remark:
inscription: Above image, printed: ACTUALITÉS. / 181. ;
Lower margin, printed: A. de Vresse, R. Rivoli, 55. / Lith. Destouches, R. Paradis. Pre. 28
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remark:
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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
A Maroni, Paris (Lugt 1506)
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
"In Memoriam: Ralph Thrall King." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 13, no. 5, part 1 (May, 1926): 95-98, 101-104, 111
page number: Reproduced: p. 104, titled "Political Actualities: Italy and Venice"
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25136926
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IMAGES
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