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
April 28, 1839
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
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About the Artist
Honoré Daumier|Aubert et Cie · 1810–1879
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...