Description

Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)

Honoré Daumier : The relentless fisherman or one should not argue about tastes 

Original lithograph

Print on white on wove paper published by the newspaper La Caricature on August 2nd 1840. Publisher : Chez Bauger et Aubert, Paris 1840,

Size of the sheet : H. 380 mm x L. 260 mm

Condition : Vintage paper with some foxing, small scattered folds and small accidents in the margins, presence of the usual central fold.

“Since 1789, the caricature has been a need for our country. It is enormously popular there, and if, until now, it did not become periodic, like the thought or like the joke, it is because the price of the engraving prohibited this speculation. Today, the processes of lithography have made it possible to render almost vulgar this exquisite pleasure that only Parisians could renew every day in the streets, or here and there on the boulevards”, writes Balzac in the prospectus for the launching of the newspaper La Caricature.

Honoré Daumier (Marseille, 1808-Valmondois, 1879), painter, draftsman, caricaturist and sculptor, witness of his time, crossed the 19th century. He lived through most of the political changes of the time. His work is composed of multiple drawings, watercolors, paintings and sculptures. But it is dominated by an immense production by the print (about 4000 original lithographs and 1000 woodcuts).