Poor Mr. Rouher! A voice (in the wings): –Go ahead! Jump! He: –But I'll sink to the bottom!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, May 9, 1872
May 9, 1872
Medium
Lithograph on newsprint
Dimensions
Image: 9 1/2 × 8 13/16 in. (24.2 × 22.4 cm) Sheet: 11 1/4 × 10 5/16 in. (28.6 × 26.2 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
62.650.425
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the sharp-witted world of 19th-century French satire with *Poor Mr. Rouher! A voice (in the wings –Go ahead! Jump He: –But I'll to the bottom!*, lithograph by master caricaturist Honoré Daum, published in *Le Charivari* on 9, 1872. Daumier, a prolific artist known for his biting political commentary, targeted Eugène Rouher, prominent Bonapartist politician and former minister under Napoleon III. Created amid the turbulent shift to France's Third Republic after the emperor's fall in 1870 and the Franco-Prussian War, this piece from the "News of the day" series captures the era's polit...
About the Artist
Eugène Rouher|Honoré Daumier (French|French) · 1808 |1814 –1879 |1884
French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois|French, Riom 1814–1884 Paris