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Details
- Other Titles
- The political insects
The candle snuffers - Alternative title
- Les moucherons politiques
- Date
- 1850
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Edition
- ii of 2
- Dimensions
- 27.7 x 21.7 cm image; 34.3 x 26.9 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated
- Credit
- Purchased 1990
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 179.1990
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Honoré Daumier
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About
Plate 130 from the series 'Actualités' ('News of the day'), published in 'Le Charivari', 3 June 1850.
The heads of the flies personify the supporters of the House of Orléans – Adolphe Thiers, Pierre-Antoine Berryer, Comte de Molé and Comte de Montalembert, trying desperately to extinguish the flame of the February Revolution of 1848.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 1990–27 Jan 1991
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Nicholas Draffin, Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Sydney, 1991, p 11.
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