The Past, the Present, the Future, plate 349

Prints and Drawings

1834

Honoré Victorin Daumier
French, 1808-1879

Honoré Victorin Daumier’s caricatures of French King Louis-Philippe (reigned 1830–1848) used satire as a form of political critique. This print, published in the satirical journal La Caricature in 1834, depicts the king with an exaggerated pear-shaped head and three faces, reflecting the sharp shift in public opinion of the king—from inspiring hope at his coronation to inciting despair once his reign took hold. Daumier’s caricatures did get him into trouble: his earlier print, Gargantua, an even more biting critique of the monarchy’s gluttonous economic policies, resulted in the artist and his publisher Charles Philipon being sentenced to six months in jail in 1832.

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Artist: Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Title: The Past, the Present, the Future, plate 349
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1834
Medium: Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 21.6 × 19.5 cm (8 9/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Sheet: 35.7 × 27 cm (14 1/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Albert H. Wolf Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1935.34
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