id: 121136
accession number: 1942.1018
share license status: CC0
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Don't Meddle With It!, 1834. Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879). Lithograph; sheet: 33.2 x 47.3 cm (13 1/16 x 18 5/8 in.); image: 31.4 x 43.4 cm (12 3/8 x 17 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection 1942.1018
title: Don't Meddle With It!
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creation date: 1834
creation date earliest: 1834
creation date latest: 1834
current location:
creditline: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
copyright:
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: lithograph
department: Prints
collection: PR - Lithograph
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Daumier Register / Delteil 133 ; Hazard-Delteil 308
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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: 33.2 x 47.3 cm (13 1/16 x 18 5/8 in.); Image: 31.4 x 43.4 cm (12 3/8 x 17 1/16 in.)
state of the work: only state
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description: cream wove paper
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inscription: Lower margin, printed: Chez Aubert, galerie vero dodat. / Litho. de Delaunois ;
Below image, printed: NE VOUS Y FROTTEZ PAS!! ;
Lower margin, in pencil: EE653 / 10150
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remark:
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Human Rights
opening date: 1963-11-05T05:00:00
Human Rights. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (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).
title: Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland
opening date: 1991-04-02T05:00:00
Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Mrs. Lewis B. Williams, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: ?-1942
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citations:
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1942-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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: Ne Vous y Frottez Pas!!
page number: Mentioned: p. 27
url: https://archive.org/details/Lithography/page/n34
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IMAGES
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