Let's leave Madame... these nudes are revolting... (aside) I'll come back later., from 'At the Salon,' published in Le Charivari, May 5, 1866
May 5, 1866
Medium
Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)
Dimensions
Image: 8 11/16 × 7 15/16 in. (22 × 20.1 cm) Sheet: 12 1/16 × 11 9/16 in. (30.6 × 29.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.61.336
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the witty world of 19th-century French satire with Honoré Daumier's *Let's leave Madame... these n are revolting... () I'll come back later a lithograph from his series *At the Salon*, published in the satirical newspaper *Le Charari* on May 5, 1866. Daumier, a masteraturist and pioneer of social commentary through prints, skewers the bourgeois visitors at the annual Paris Salon—the prestigious art exhibition where nudes were both celebrated and scandalized. Here, a hypocritical gentleman feigns outrage to his companion while whispering plans for a solo return, capturing the era's pr...
About the Artist
Destouches|Honoré Daumier|Arnaud de Vresse (French|French) · 1808 |1800 –1879 |1900
French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois|Paris