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Details
- Other Title
- Masques de 1831.
- Alternative title
- Masques de 1831
- Date
- 1832
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Edition
- only state
- Dimensions
- 23.5 x 29.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., black ink [inscribed on stone] "Rogelin [Daumier's alias]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1988
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 472.1988
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Honoré Daumier
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About
Plate 143 published in 'La Caricature', no 71, 8 March 1832.
The pear, representing King Louis-Philippe, is surrounded by his 14 newly appointed ministers. The vagueness of the King’s gleaming face at the centre of the masks is a clear political statement about the power in this government.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 1990–27 Jan 1991
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Nicholas Draffin, Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Sydney, 1991, pp 3, 5, illus p 4.
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Anne Gérard-Austin, Look, 'Daumier's human comedy', Sydney, Oct 2023-Nov 2023, p 12, col illus p 12.
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