Honoré Victorin Daumier. 1808-1879.
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Series: Les Trains de Plaisir.
"- Quand après dix assauts infructueux on arrive enfin à conqérir une place dans un wagon on éprouve un premier et bien vif plaisir."
Having found a seat after ten desperate attempts to board the train, a first tender feeling of holiday relaxation emerges.)
1864. Lithograph. Delteil 3295.ii/ii (with letters). 9 5/8 x 8 3/4 (sheet 11 13/16 x 12 1/16). Series: Croquis, - par Daumier, (Sketches by Daumier), plate one. The series consisted of 4 prints which appeared in the CHARIVARI between August 6, 1864 and June 6, 1866. This image was published in Le Charivari August 6, 1864. Text: lower left: Mon-Martinet,172 r.Rivoli et 41,r.Vivienne; lower right: Lith. Destouches,28,r.Paradis Pre. Slight foxing; Unobtrusive vertical and horizontal folds; sheet trimmed. A delightful early railroad image. Initialed in the stone, lower left. $640
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a prolific French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society In 1830 Daumier began his satirical work, lampooning contemporariesin his sculptures and his many lithographs. At this time, Charles Philipon, a liberal journalist who had founded the opposition journal La Caricature, invited him to become a contributor. Philipon was the owner of the largest printing house in Paris equipped with lithographic presses, and used them to print La Caricature and Le Charivari, another illustrated paper. When a tightening of censorship in 1835 put an end to La Caricature, Daumier shifted to politically unobjectionable social satire for Philipon's other journal, Le Cbarivari. In hundreds of lithographs, Daumier's character types were universal: businessmen, lawyers, doctors, professors, and petits bourgeois.
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