Well, if you look very closely, you might end up finding some quality! The color seems to be good, from 'Sketches from the Salon,' published in Le Charivari, June 16, 1865
June 16, 1865
Medium
Lithograph and pen and brown ink on newsprint; first state of two (proof)
Dimensions
Image: 9 × 8 in. (22.8 × 20.3 cm) Sheet: 13 3/4 in. × 11 in. (34.9 × 28 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
56.638.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the witty world of 19th-century French satire with this lithograph by Honoré Daumier, collaborators Destouches and Aaron Mart. Titled *Well, if you look very closely, might end up finding some! The color seems to good*, it appeared in the June 16, 1865, issue of *Le Charivari* as part of Daumier's "Sket from the Salon" series Daumier, a virtuoso of caricature and a key figure in Realism, skewered the pretensions of the Paris Salon's annual art exhibition, where ambitious (and often mediocre) works vied for attention amid the Second Empire's cultural buzz. Crafted as a first-state pr...
About the Artist
Destouches|Aaron Martinet|Honoré Daumier (French|French) · 1808 |1800 –1879 |1900
French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois|Paris