Description:
caricature; French history; political carotoon; large man slumped on throne surrounded by three canons and a slumping woman in the background; lady liberty; on the left a rooster peaks out from behind the throne also slumped; French history; political cartoon
Label Text:
Daumier was one of the greatest caricaturists of his age, producing thousands of lithographic sketches skewering the political and social figures of nineteenth-century Paris. After a brief apprenticeship with a lithographic portraitist and undistinguished work for other publishers, Daumier was finally able to make his mark with his work for the publisher Charles Philipon, in whose weekly magazine, La Caricature, this image first appeared. Repos de la France shows Philipon's and Daumier's favorite target of the time, King Louis- Philippe, slumped on his throne, yet fully armed: cannons poke out from beneath his chair, he holds a sword, and the shackled figure of Republican Liberty (on the right) and the Coq of France (left) are kept in their place.
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