Two Lithograph Newspaper Prints after Honoré Daumier "Une Promotion" and "Les Alarmistes et Les Alarmés"

Item Details

Two lithograph prints in newspapers after original lithographs titled Une Promotion from Les Beaux Jours de la Vie_ and Les Alarmistes et Les Alarmés by well listed French artist Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), originally published in Le Charivari, April 30, 1845. These prints appear on loose newspaper sheets with French text to their versos. One depicts a pair of chefs in the kitchen and the other an older couple on their stairwell. Both are presented unmounted and unframed.

Honoré Daumier was born in Marseilles, France in 1808. At age thirteen he attended the Academy Suisse. Daumier struggled with money at the academy and could not afford many oil paints and canvases , therefore resorting to drawing on anything and anywhere he could. He was quickly becoming a skilled draftsman. Daumier began turning out political cartoons for the French magazine La Caricature. Over then span of his career as an artist, Daumier would produce 3,958 original lithographs until he went blind at age 65 and died of a stroke two years later.

Condition

- minor marks, bents, and small tears to the sheets; some discoloration and pale foxing throughout.

Dimensions

- measures the larger; smaller measures 9.5" W x 12.15" H.

Item #

17DCC093-729