Detail View: The AMICA Library: From What! From What! Your Dowry?...
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.2001.138
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AMICA Library Year:
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2002
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Object Type:
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Prints
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Creator Name:
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Daumier, Honoré-Victorin
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Creator Nationality:
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French
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1808 - 1879
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Biography:
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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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Gender:
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M
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Creator Birth Place:
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Marseille, 26 February 1808
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Creator Death Place:
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Valmondois, 10 February 1879
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Honoré Daumier
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Creator Name:
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Bouvenne, Edouard
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Creator Nationality:
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French
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Creator Role:
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hand-colored by
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1808 - 1879
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Edouard Bouvenne
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Title:
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De Quoi! De Quoi!, Votre Dot?...
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Title Type:
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Foreign
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Title:
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From What! From What! Your Dowry?...
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1837
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Creation Start Date:
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1837
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Creation End Date:
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1837
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Materials and Techniques:
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lithograph hand-colored with watercolor
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Classification Term:
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Print
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Dimensions:
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Sheet: 35.8cm x 27.1cm, Image: 24.7cm x 21.4cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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2001.138
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Credit Line:
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John L. Severance Fund
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Inscriptions:
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inscribed in the margins on all four sides of the image: Modèle de la Grande Collection de 1839 par Edouard Bouvenne/ Paris a 26 7bre/ Bouvenne/ Modèle.
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Rights:
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.AM20021772.tif
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