id:			122753
accession number:	1942.928
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.928
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:54.214000

The Musicians of Paris: If you knew how pretty you are!, 1841. Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879). Lithograph; sheet: 36.4 x 24.8 cm (14 5/16 x 9 3/4 in.); image: 24 x 18.2 cm (9 7/16 x 7 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George W. Bierce 1942.928

title:				If you knew how pretty you are!
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series:				The Musicians of Paris
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creation date:			1841
creation date earliest:		1841
creation date latest:		1843
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creditline:			Gift of George W. Bierce
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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 924; Hazard-Delteil 355

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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: 36.4 x 24.8 cm (14 5/16 x 9 3/4 in.); Image: 24 x 18.2 cm (9 7/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
state of the work:	III/III
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	description:	newsprint
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Above image, printed: LES MUSICIENS DE PARIS. / 6 ; 
below Image, printed: "- Si vous saviez comme vous êtes jolie! faites semblant de jouer - Taisez-vous do. - Vous ne / m'aimez pas si. - Et je seai toujours! la mi."
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	inscription:	Upper margin, in pencil: Daumier / # 6 ;
lower margin, in pencil: D. III.924-III/III ; 
printed: Chez Bauger & Cie. Edit, R. du Croissant, 16 / Imp. d'Aubert & Cie.
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PROVENANCE

	George W. Bierce, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1942
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1942-
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