The visitor and the artist, from 'Sketches from the Salon,' published in Le Charivari, May 30, 1864
May 30, 1864
Medium
Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)
Dimensions
Image: 8 13/16 × 9 1/8 in. (22.4 × 23.1 cm) Sheet: 11 9/16 × 10 13/16 in. (29.3 × 27.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Accession Number
Ref.Daumier.2
Tags
Art Historical Context
This lithograph by Honoré Daumier captures a humorous encounter between an art visitor and an artist at the Paris Salon, the era’s premier exhibition of contemporary. Published on May 30, 1864, in the satirical weekly *Le Charivari*, the print belongs to Daumier’s series “Sketches from the Salon,” which gently mocked the rituals of viewing and judging art. Printed on inexpensive newsprint, it reached a broad middle-class audience eager for witty commentary on cultural life under the Second Empire. Daumier, a master of lithography, used bold, economical lines and exaggerated expressions to dis...