Décidément, ce qui, cette année, obtient le plus de succès à l'exposition de sculpture..., from Le Salon de 1857, published in "Le Charivari"
July 21, 1857
Medium
Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 14 1/8 in. (29.9 × 35.9 cm) Image: 8 1/4 × 10 7/16 in. (20.9 × 26.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.61.101
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the satirical world of 19th-century Paris with *Décidément, ce qui cette année, obtient le de succès à l'exposition sculpture...*, a lithograph from Honoré Daumier’s *Le Salon de 1857*, published in the irreverent newspaper *Le Chariv* on July 21, 1857. Daumier, a master caricaturist alongside collaborators Aaron Martinet and Dest, skewers the pomp of the annual Paris Salon—the era’s premier art showcase. The title, translating to “Decidedly, what’s getting the most success this year at the sculpture exhibition…,” mocks the fickle tastes of the bourgeois crowd, likely fixated on a tr...