Pardon my friend..... let's verify my powers before yours!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, July 16, 1869
July 16, 1869
Medium
Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)
Dimensions
Image: 9 5/16 × 8 1/16 in. (23.6 × 20.5 cm) Sheet: 11 1/2 × 10 3/16 in. (29.2 × 25.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960
Accession Number
60.708.122
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the bustling world of 19th-century Parisian satire, Honoré Daumier, collaborators Walter Frères and Arnaud deresse, crafted this lively lithograph titled *Pardon my friend..... verify my powers before yours*, published in the July 16, 1869, edition of *Le Charivari*'s "News of the" section. *Le Charivari*, a pioneering French humor newspaper, was a hotbed for political and social caricature during the Second under Napoleon III, skewering the era's hypocrisies, pretensions, and power plays. Daumier, a virtuoso of the form, often used pseudonyms like these to navigate censorship while deliver...
About the Artist
Walter Frères|Arnaud de Vresse|Honoré Daumier (French|French|French) · 1856 |1808 | –1870 |1879 |
|French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois|