id: 142017 accession number: 1965.546 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.546 updated: 2023-03-10 19:43:01.663000 Ancient History: The Shepherds of Virgil, 1842. Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879), Aubert. Lithograph; sheet: 34.1 x 25.4 cm (13 7/16 x 10 in.); image: 22.5 x 19.3 cm (8 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection 1965.546 title: The Shepherds of Virgil 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: Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: lithograph department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Daumier Register / Delteil 972 ; Hazard-Delteil 1948 --- 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: 34.1 x 25.4 cm (13 7/16 x 10 in.); Image: 22.5 x 19.3 cm (8 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.) state of the work: III/III edition of the work: support materials: description: cream wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: Upper margin, in pencil: H.D 1948 L.D. 972 ; lower margin, printed: Chez Bauger, R. du Croissant, 16 / Imp. d'Aubert & Cie. ; in pencil: Le, S translation: remark: inscription: Above image, printed: HISTOIRE ANNCIENE. / 48. ; below image, printed: "LES BERGERS DE VIRGILE. / Air suffisamment connu. / Ces beaux enfans de l'Italie / Célébraint ainsi tour à tour, / Le bois, le côteau, la prairie, / Et le doux ciel qui leur donna le jour. / (Paroles et Musique de Mr. F. Bérat.)" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Graphic Humor opening date: 1982-06-01T04:00:00 Graphic Humor. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 1-August 29, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Leona E. Prasse, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1966 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: This print was published in Le Charivari (December 31, 1842) as plate 48 from the series Ancient History. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.546/1965.546_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.546/1965.546_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.546/1965.546_full.tif