Preview
Creation Date
1840
Geography
France
Culture
French
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
With frame: 19 1/4 × 15 13/16 × 1 in. (48.9 × 40.1 × 2.5 cm)
Credit Line
Long-term Loan from the Estate of Boris Blick, 2015
Accession Number
2015.86
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
Upper margin; center: "EMOTIONS PARISIENNES."; lower right, "28."
Beneath image, lower left: "chez Bauger.R. du Croissant.16."; lower right, "Imp d'Ambert & Cịe"
Lower margin: "— Eh te vlà mon pauvre fieu! comme te vlà beau! viens done baiser lon père! — / Le fils qui s'est formè l'esprit et le cour à Paris, rèpond avec âme Connais pas!!..."
Signed within image, lower left: "h.D."
Rubber stamp on back of frame, lower center: "DENIS CONLEY GALLERY / 754 Kenmore Blvd. / AKRON, OH 44314 / 216-753-2022"
Creator Biography
Honoré Daumier, French, 1808–1879 (artist).
Ambert & Cie, French, 1830s–1880s (printer).
Bauger et Cie, French, 1830–1842 (fl.) (publisher).
Description
Satirical cartoon of a man dressed in tattered and ragged clothes greeting his fashionably dressed son as a high class crowd walks in the background.
Publishing through Bauger et Cie located rue de Croissant no.16 in Paris, a known printer of satires, Honoré Daumier continues his own legacy of satirical prints. Following the implementation of censorship laws in France, Daumier shifted from political cartoons to social satires of the middle class. This is print 28 of a series of these social satires, either forty-two or fifty-one lithographs titled Émotions Parisiennes (ca. 1840) or Parisian Emotions. Featuring moments of emotion captured across Paris, this print expresses a moment between father and son, now of notably different social classes, as the father animatedly greets his son and requests that he give his father a kiss, as the caption describes.
For more information:
Delteil, Loÿs, and Nicolas Auguste Hazard. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre lithographié de Honoré Daumier. Orrouy: N.-A. Hazard, 1904.
For information on this specific print, see section titled "1657. XXVIII. - Eh te v'la mon pauvre fieu!," 366, under the "Émotions Parisiennes" section, 362–368.