id: 111369 accession number: 1929.874 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.874 updated: 2022-05-14 09:00:28.862000 The Nightmare, 1832. Honoré Daumier (French, 1808-1879), Aubert. Lithograph; sheet: 27 x 35.6 cm (10 5/8 x 14 in.); image: 23.3 x 29.4 cm (9 3/16 x 11 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Frank S. Lahm 1929.874 title: The Nightmare title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1832 creation date earliest: 1832 creation date latest: 1832 current location: creditline: Gift of Frank S. Lahm copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century;France, 19th century technique: lithograph department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Daumier Register / Delteil 41 ; Hazard-Delteil 249 --- 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: 27 x 35.6 cm (10 5/8 x 14 in.); Image: 23.3 x 29.4 cm (9 3/16 x 11 9/16 in.) state of the work: only state edition of the work: support materials: description: cream wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: Below image, printed: Le cauchemar. translation: remark: inscription: Verso, in pencil: TR 2733/1 / Le portrait a celui du general Lafayette Chari...(?) du 23 Fer 1832 / Charicatur has Daumier qui a depuis(?) d'abore(?) Rogelin translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Human Rights opening date: 1963-11-05T05:00:00 Human Rights. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 5, 1963-January 12, 1964). title: From Block Books to Baskin: Artists as Illustrators opening date: 1986-05-13T04:00:00 From Block Books to Baskin: Artists as Illustrators. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 13-August 17, 1986). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Frank S. Lahm, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: ?-1929 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1929- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The man in the image is General Lafayette; the pear on top of him represents King Louis-Philippe, showing their uncomfortable relationship. digital description: This print was published in the journal La Caricature (No. 69) as plate 139. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.874/1929.874_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.874/1929.874_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.874/1929.874_full.tif