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accession number:	2011.407
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Lesson in Understanding in 1843, 1843. Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879). Lithograph; sheet: 27.1 x 35.6 cm (10 11/16 x 14 in.); image: 17.3 x 23 cm (6 13/16 x 9 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Susan Schulman and Carolyn Bullard in honor of Jane Glaubinger 2011.407

title:				Lesson in Understanding in 1843
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creation date:			1843
creation date earliest:		1843
creation date latest:		1843
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creditline:			Gift of Susan Schulman and Carolyn Bullard in honor of Jane Glaubinger
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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 1002 ; Hazard-Delteil 433

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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.
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measurements: Sheet: 27.1 x 35.6 cm (10 11/16 x 14 in.); Image: 17.3 x 23 cm (6 13/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
state of the work:	I/IV
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	inscription:	Left margin, pen and ink: "à tirer de suite avant depart." ; 
Upper margin, pen an ink: "Caricatures du jour. La Caricature. Journal." ; 
Below the image, pen and ink: "Une lecon d'agrément en 1843 / Il fallait parer!.. il fallait parer!.. ce coup-là vous a éte / démontré tout à l'heure... c'est le coup du prince Rodolphe / ... je vous l'avais expliqué et j'avais pourtant bien mis les points / sur les i... / -Sacrist!.... vous auriez bien dû ne pas me le mettre sur l'oeil [in pencil]: les yeux!...  / ....enfin cést peut-être votre manière de marquer vos cachet!...." 
Verso, in pen and ink: [addressed to] "M. Biais"
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PROVENANCE

	Reneé Gaston-Dreyfus (Potel Collection); Henri Petiet, stamped verso
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	Susan Schulman, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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IMAGES

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