Here you see the great celebrities of literary, musical, and artistic France; they are thirty-six feet tall measured below sea level (Vous voyez ici les grandez célébrités), from Les Saltimbanques, published in La Caricature, April 28, 1839

Here you see the great celebrities of literary, musical, and artistic France; they are thirty-six feet tall measured below sea level (Vous voyez ici les grandez célébrités), from Les Saltimbanques, published in La Caricature, April 28, 1839 by Honoré Daumier|Aubert et Cie

Medium

Lithograph; second state of four (Delteil)

Dimensions

Sheet: 12 1/2 × 9 13/16 in. (31.8 × 25 cm) Image: 10 1/4 × 8 3/4 in. (26 × 22.2 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962

Accession Number

62.650.476

Tags

Musical InstrumentsMen

About the Artist

Honoré Daumier|Aubert et Cie · 18101879

Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-1879) was a prolific French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor whose works offered incisive commentary on the social and political life of 19th-century France. Known as the 'Michelangelo of Caricature,' Daumier produced over 4,000 lithographs, 500 paintings, 1,000 drawings, and 100 sculptures during his lifetime. His biting political satire led to his imp...

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