Honoré Victorin Daumier. 1808-1879.
Delteil app41, Hazard-Delteil 1990, DR 4022. Le Prédicateur. Je prèche à la cour.... sur l'avarice et le parjure....... j'ai un succès prodigieux...... le roi pleure et me serre les mains....... je reçois le chapeau du cardinal. August 8, 1833. Lithograph. 240 x 192 mm (9.45 x 7.56 inches). "The preacher. I preach at Court... on avarice and purgery... I have a prodigious success... the king cries and shakes my hands... I shall receivie the Cardinal's hat." Published in Le Charivari 08.08.1833. 2nd series. Number 260(?). Series: L'IMAGINATION, Plate 13. Lower left 'L.de Benard, rue de l'Abbaye,No4'; lower right 'On s'abonne chez 'L'Imagination' to the lithographic stones, while Daumier was serving his prison term in Dr. Pinel's clinic. Image: 7.56 x 9.45. Stone size: 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 2 1/4. Weight 30 pounds.
Provenance: The previous owner purchased this stone 20 years ago from a Dutch collector by the name of Robert Knol, who assembled a collection of lithographic stones from French and Belgian sources. Thence to public auction in Leiden, The Netherlands. Thence, the collection of Derek Allinson, Ph.D. and Jane Allinson, Ph.D.
The Daumier Register has the following information: L'IMAGINATION (Phantasies) is a series of 19 lithographs of which 15 appeared in the Charivari between January 14, 1833 and October 19, 1833. Four more appeared between December 16, 1843 and March 1844.
ABOUT THIS SERIES. During the time of Daumier's imprisonment he did a number of drawings and watercolors. Some of them have been transferred to a lithographic stone by Ramelet, like DR 50, and were published in La Caricature and later in Le Charivari. According to Champfleury, also the LD appendix numbers 29 to 43 / DR 010 to 4024 were part of this procedure. Le Charivari announced this in the edition of January 14, 1833. é The prints from the series L'Imagination are very impressive. They have been drawn by Daumier while he was serving a prison sentence (first in the prison St. Pélagie) at the hospital for the mentally ill of Dr. J.P. Casimir Pinel (1800-1856?). Pinel owned a private hospital at 67, rue de Chaillot in Paris. His rather unconventional attitude and political standing made it possible to have political detainees declared "mentally unstable", like Daumier. Instead spending their time in prison, these unfortunate prisoners were able to serve their sentence in the relaxed surrounding of a private clinic. The hospital was run in such a laid back way that some political "prisoners" continued their subversive activity from within the clinic. Daumier continued drawing this series while being at Pinel's, but the transfer to the lithographic stone was done by Charles Ramelet (1805-1851), a lithographer and worked for the Charivari since 1832.
Please click on the link for an excellent publication on Daumier's series L'Imagination by Shao-Chien Tseng which appeared in Oculus, vol. 1, nr.1, 199: L'Imagination.
The lithograph is not included with the stone. The image is courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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