Prudhomme obliged to take lessons from Miss Menken in order to stop a cab, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, July 1, 1867
July 1 ,1867
Medium
Lithograph and pen and brown ink on newsprint; second state of two, proof (Delteil)
Dimensions
Image: 9 7/16 × 8 1/2 in. (24 × 21.6 cm) Sheet: 14 13/16 × 10 7/8 in. (37.6 × 27.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956
Accession Number
56.638.8
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the bustling satirical world of 19th-century Paris, Honoré Daumier, a master of caricature, created this lively lithograph published in *Le Charivari* on 1, 1867. Titled *Prudhomme obliged to lessons from Miss Menken order to stop a cab it features collaborators Destouches and Arnaud de V. *Le Charivari*, a pioneering humor magazine, was Daumier's playground for skewering bourgeois pretensions during the Second Empire. Here, the hapless Monsieur Prudhomme—a stock character embodying pompous middle-class folly—takes absurd "lessons" from the daring American actress Adah Isaacs Menken to hail...
About the Artist
Destouches|Honoré Daumier|Arnaud de Vresse (French|French) · 1808 |1800 –1879 |1900
French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois|Paris